Title

HMS Steam-Powered Battleship Medusa Opening the Shimonoseki Straits, 1864. Creator: Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest.

Caption

HMS Steam-Powered Battleship Medusa Opening the Shimonoseki Straits, 1864. Other Title(s): HMS 'Medusa' Forcing the Passage through Shimonoseki Strait between Kyushu and Honshu, September 1864.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A84_060

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Rights managed

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97,3Mb (4,4Mb) / 24,7in x 15,3in / 7418 x 4584 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Europe sea coast boat boats arts painting coastal country shore art seascape ship ships British museum geography Netherlands Dutch color Japan Japanese strait waterway waterways war location century Britain concept battery Navy firing metaphor warfare battleship oil Painting Colour steamship naval warfare 19th century water transport warship bombardment warships nineteenth century shelling Royal Navy geographical feature gunboat diplomacy Rijksmuseum steam ship TGN Oil on canvas naval ship Painting Heritage Art Low Countries 19th-century Shimonoseki Straits HMS Medusa Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest Heemskerck van Beest Jacob Eduard jonkheer Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest Beest Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van