Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOVEN 'PHOTOTEXTURE' PICTURE OF EMPEROR MEIJI

MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

With the official portrait of the sovereign after the drawing by Eduardo Chiossone (1888), depicted seated by a table, his hat with feathered plumes beside him and holding the hilt of his sword; framed by a border of chrysanthemum, paulownia, and leafy tendrils; with two lines of inscriptions below; together with paper ephemera, including two printed Japanese texts, a translation of the ‘Precepts of Iyeyasu’ by K. Wadagaki of the Imperial University and a description of the process of phototexture signed ‘Tomizawa Phototexture Department’; the silk panel pasted to a paper scroll mount, 37cm x 30cm. (5)