EditorialHappy Improvisations on a Riverboat Journey, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1767, Japan, Handscroll; woodblock print; ink on paper, 11 3/16 x 39 ft. 7/16 in. (28.4 x 1189.9 cm), Prints, Ito Jakuchu (Japanese, 1716?1800), This scroll records a journey in s...
EditorialHappy Improvisations on a Riverboat Journey, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1767, Japan, Handscroll; woodblock print; ink on paper, 11 3/16 x 39 ft. 7/16 in. (28.4 x 1189.9 cm), Prints, Ito Jakuchu (Japanese, 1716?1800), This scroll records a journey in s...
EditorialVessels and warships of the Chinese navy. Mail ship or news frigate 1, junk with defensive boards 2, covered waterwheel riverboat 3, junk 4, and hawk's beak boat with two prows 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrra...
EditorialPlate from Sinceny, France, with Chinese landscape of women in a riverboat surrounded by insects and flowers. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.