Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 404

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(JAPAN -- PERRY.) Sketch of Commodore Perry's Black Ship squadron off Kanagawa (Yokohama). Ink and wash manuscript plan on thin mulberry. 11x16 inches; vertical fold, small hole at lower right, scattered spots of foxing. Japan, Kaei 7 (1854)

Additional Details

The delicate drawing pictures Perry's ships shortly before landing to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa. together with: 13 sheets of manuscript business records including another map.