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Lot Essay
This painting is likely to be a mid 19th century copy after an early 19th century stencil print, which is illustrated in: Kobe City Museum, Nanban Art, vol. 3, pl. 6.
Details
Anonymous
CIRCA 1850
Depicting a Western figure standing on a balcony, looking out over the port of Nagasaki, with a Japanese attendant in an interior with a desk by a half-draped window, a sailing ship in the background,
colour on silk backed with paper, some restoration
75 cm. x 49 cm., framed
CIRCA 1850
Depicting a Western figure standing on a balcony, looking out over the port of Nagasaki, with a Japanese attendant in an interior with a desk by a half-draped window, a sailing ship in the background,
colour on silk backed with paper, some restoration
75 cm. x 49 cm., framed
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