Lot 72
  • 72

UNKNOWN ARTISTDUTCH SHIPS (ORANDA BUNE) EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY |

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • 29.2 x 21 cm., 11 3/8  x 8 1/4  in.
woodblock print, depicting two Dutch ships, one of which is firing a salute at Deshima (Nagasaki Bay) horizontal oban:

Condition

- The print is laid down on a thin card. - There is some old creases and the paper repair to the bottom left as can be seen in the illustration. - There is a slight centre fold.
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Catalogue Note

The same image is illustrated in Willem van Gulik, The Dutch in Nagasaki - 19th-Century Japanese Prints (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 57.