Old Japanese Culture & Society - Wrestling Jousting Fishermen Buddha Monk 1856

Description

Antique Print Description
Details:
Title:
Japanese Scenes
Type:
Original Antique Wood Engraved Print
Publication:
Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Boston, MA.
Date:
1856
Artist:
Unknown
Grade:
Very good with mild age toning, Paper supple and flexible.
Size:
Two full pages (11" x 15") with eight engravings.
Item Description:
These are two pages from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (1856) with 8 engraved illustrations of various scenes of Japanese culture & society including: wrestling, wild bonzes (priests), worship of Amida (Buddha), fishermen, a pleasure barge, a noble lady's chariot & "tilting" or jousting.
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. It became Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray Ballou bought out the interest of Gleason. The magazine absorbed the Illustrated News of New York in 1853. Many aspiring American artists, such as Winslow Homer, began as illustrators for the newspaper.
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