Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)

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Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)

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Title: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)
Related Names:
   Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 , artist
   Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826?-1869 , artist
   Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1842?-1894 , artist
   Utagawa, Kuniteru, 1830?-1874 , artist
   Utagawa, Yoshikazu, fl. 1848-1863 , artist
   Utagawa, Yoshitoyo, 1830-1866 , artist
   Ikkei , artist
   Ochiai, Yoshiiku, 1833-1904 , artist
   Utagawa, Yoshitora, fl. 1850-1870 , artist
   Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873 , artist
   Chadbourne, E. Crane (Emily Crane) , donor
Date Created/Published: 1801-1885; bulk 1850-1885.
Medium: 181 prints : woodcut, chiefly color.
Summary: Collection testifies to Japanese interest in Western dress, manners, and technology, emphasizing foreigners in Japan as well as imagined scenes in places outside Japan. Some depictions of foreign subject matter may be drawn from Western representations. Many portray national "types," including Americans, English, French, Dutch, Russians, and Chinese; their recreational, business, and military activities and their children are depicted, as well as Western inventors and their inventions and world sovereigns. Several portray Commodore Perry and other naval officers. Also includes images of transportation, especially the Japanese railway, horse-drawn vehicles, and foreign ships. Scenes in various cities, including cityscapes and sites in Yokohama, Tokyo, and London; many show buildings, including foreign settlement houses, as well as events such as the second industrial exhibition in Ueno Park, Tokyo. Animals are heavily represented; study charts for foreign languages, including English, and a few maps, including a plan of Nagasaki (1801), are also found in the collection.
Reproduction Number: ---
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4840 USA
Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized into one series called FP 2 - Chadbourne; Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by artist; prints by unidentified artists filed first.
- Finding aid (unpublished): Finding aid describing individual prints, with transliterations and translations of caption information, available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room, filed by call number. Finding aid includes index by broad topics.
- Includes prints by 30 artists, as well as unidentified artists. Those represented by over three prints are: Utagawa Hiroshige II; Utagawa Hiroshige III; Ikkei; Utagawa Kuniteru; Utagawa Sadahide; Ochiai Yoshiiku; Utagawa Yoshikazu; Utagawa Yoshitora; and Utagawa Yoshitoyo. Also two prints probably by Andō Hiroshige.
- Most prints were published in Edo (Tokyo) following Commodore Perry's opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1853, although the collection also includes earlier woodcuts published in Nagasaki.
- Most prints bear artists' stamp and seal date. Some are items from named sets. Also includes diptychs and triptychs.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 44
- Most prints are in Japanese.
- Digitized images of each print along with associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
- Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne bought the prints in Paris.
- Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930.
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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 181 prints : woodcut, chiefly color.

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 181 prints : woodcut, chiefly color.

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