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Ryojunkō gai daikainsen shinzu sonosan roko kukantai no zenm
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Print shows Japanese battleships bombarding Russian battleships in a surprise naval assault on the Russian fleet at Lüshun (Port Arthur); includes cameo portraits, possibly of Admiral Tōgō (left), for the Japanese, and for the Russians (right), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekesyev. (Russian portrait formerly thought to be Admiral Oskar Victorovich Stark or Stepan Osipovich Makarov.)
Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.
Attributed to: Kasai Torajiro.
From the series: Nichiro sentō gahō : Visual record of the Russo-Japanese War.
Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
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