Sarony1856 (ca)
Kura-Kawa-Kahai, Prefect of Simoda
Lithograph, from a daguerreotype
11.5 x 8.75 in.
Archive FarmsThe Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2011.139
Sarony & Co from a daguerreotype by Eliphalet Brown Jr..
Heine, William, Die Expedition in die Seen Von China, Japan, und Ochotsk, vol 2, 1859
Sandweiss, Martha, Print The Legend, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002, pg 116
Brown was the photographer on Commodore Matthew Perry's groundbreaking naval expedition to Japan in 1852-53.
LL/112696