Title:
[Imperial Japanese civil guard]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1033--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: ink and watercolor
18.2 x 27.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Group of three civil guards seated on tatami mats in interior of house (guards were placed by party of Baron von Rezanoff
at Megasaki, Japan).
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): Kaiserliche Civil-Wache/[...?]; (LC, in ink). Vordere [Seite?]. Ref. note: Preliminary
drawing for Langsdorff--German edition, Volume I, pp. 245, 250; English edition, Volume I, pp. 283, 288. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Discovery & exploration;
Dwellings;
Expeditions & surveys;
Japan;
Military personnel;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Travel sketches;
Watercolors