James Watt,inventor of the steam engine,Japanese,Photograph,collecting steam
Title: [James Watt, inventor of the steam engine]
Date Created/Published: Japan : Japanese Department of Education, [between 1850 and 1900]
Summary: Japanese print shows Watt collecting steam from a boiling kettle while his aunt rebukes him for his nonsense.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Extensive, unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheet of paper. Annotation written in pencil on mount: James Watt 1736-1819. Typescript caption on mount: James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, collects steam from a boiling kettle while his aunt rebukes him for his nonsense.
Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 186; 47623a (white label); 42; LC2585.
Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 73 (p. 171)
Earlier control number: 236.3-34.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Watt, James,--1736-1819.
Inventors--1850-1900.
Steam--1850-1900.
Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1850-1900.
Bookmark /2002700142/
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