「ヲロシア人啚、文化元甲子年九月 長崎渡来」|Russians at Nagasaki

Unidentified artist

ca. 1830 · Woodblock print (kappazuri); ink and stencil-printed color on paper; vertical aiban · Asian Art

Russian officer Nikolay Rezanov (1764–1807) stands in the port of Nagasaki. He faces a soldier at left, and his attendant, at right, holds a Russian flag. A yellow cartouche at upper left reads “Illustration of Russians who arrived at Nagasaki in the ninth month of the first year of the Bunka era [1804].”

Artist

Unidentified artist

Date

ca. 1830

Medium

Woodblock print (kappazuri); ink and stencil-printed color on paper; vertical aiban

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Sue Cassidy Clark Gift, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2012