Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (1) THE DISEMBARKATION: Each traveller who lands at a port in China is immediately conducted, like a wrong-doer, between two rows of inquisitive people to the passport office: hardly has he touched the soil of the Celestial Empire, than he becomes the prey of luggage-porters, hotel-boys, interpreters, messengers and other highwaymen authorised by the Chinese police.
Date | 1843 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 20.6 x 26.9 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower right: h. D.; numbered on the stone, lower left of center: 548 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1189 (ii/ii), Tobu III-187 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1452 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 2000
- Honoré Daumier Caricatures III: From the Tobu Collections, Tobu Museum of Art, 5 February 2000 - 14 March 2000, no. 56
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 75
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 121.