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「冨士山艦航行之図」
The Warship Fujisan Under Sail (Fujisan-kan kôkô no zu)
「冨士山艦航行之図」
Japanese
Meiji era
1888 (Meiji 21), November 17
Medium/Technique
Lithograph; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
28 x 39.7 cm (11 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession NumberRES.47.83
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionThe Fujisan (also called Fujiyama in English-language sources) was a steam frigate built in New York CIty and purchased in 1862 by the Tokugawa shogunate. It became a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was decommissioned in 1889 and scrapped in 1896.
Signed
Gasaku kanete hakkôjin Kumazawa Kitarô
画作兼発行人熊沢喜太郎
画作兼発行人熊沢喜太郎
ProvenanceBy 1947, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1947, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: December 11, 1947)