Updated 22 November 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (15) SMOKERS AND SNUFF-TAKERS: — Do not believe that all Chinese stupify themselves with opium; no, a crowd of people and above all [those] in good society make their sovereign pleasure consist of smoking and taking a certain leaf which looks pretty disagreeable, but whose taste is very loathsome — As this leaf is harvested from a plant called nicotiana they were completely naturally inclined to call it tobacco.
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 20.1 x 26.2 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower right: h. D.; numbered on the stone, lower left of center: 673 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1203 (ii/ii), Tobu III-201 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1466 |
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. 89
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. 123.