[PERRY, COMMODORE MATTHEW] BROWN, ELIPHALET (AFTER), KRÄMER, P. S. DUVAL & CO. (LITHOGRAPHERS)

China Girl. Sycée Head Dress. [Caption title]

(Washington). (A.O.P. Nicholson). [circa 1856.]. Stock ID #176616

Tinted lithograph, 21.9 x 15.5 cm, 29 x 22.5 cm (sheet), edges a little age-toned and spotted, inner margin stained, but in very good condition.

A fine cameo portrait, after a daguerrotype by Eliphalet Brown, and prepared for Commodore Perry's "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan...". Perry visited Macao in 1853 for an extended stay: this portrait dates from that visit.

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Price: $125.00 AU

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