Display Status
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Date
c. 1850-1880
Country of Origin
Japan
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Woodcut on Paper, Colored
Artist
Utagawa Yoshitora
Physical Description
Japanese woodcut print of two men and one woman on a patio. Left panel of three that combine to show a balloon ascension commemorating the visit to Philadelphia of the first Japanese Embassy to the U.S., June 14, 1860. The man to the far left is Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, one of the aeronauts flying that day.
A20140970000 is the center panel of the scene, and A20140971000 is the right panel.
Dimensions
2-D - Unframed (H x W): 36.8 × 24.8cm (14 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)
2-D - In Frame (with A20140970000, A20140971000) (H x W x D): 53.3cm × 88.9cm × 3.8cm (21 × 35 × 1 1/2 in.)
Inventory Number
A20140969000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
Restrictions & Rights
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