Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (2) THE PASSPORT: The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year.
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 19.0 x 24.4 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower right: h. D.; numbered on the stone, to the right of the signature: 551 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1190 (iii/iii), Tobu III-188 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1453 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 76
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.