Sujet
The Corean ambassadors returning on board the Japanese steamer Sakasago Masu, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Corean ambassadors returning on board the Japanese steamer Sakasago Masu, 1881. 'One of our travelling Special Artists, Mr. Joseph Bell, has proceeded to Eastern Asia, with a design to find his way...through the interior of North China and across Chinese Tartary, or Mongolia, to the Russian dominions in the region of Turkestan...In the mean time, he has...got an opportunity of making a trip to the neighbouring kingdom of Corea, which is a peninsula of the North Asiatic mainland, beyond the Yellow Sea, divided from the southern part of the Japanese islands by a strait about two hundred miles wide...there has recently been an international dispute between the ruler of Corea, whom Europeans call the King of that country, and the Mikado or Emperor of Japan. War seems to have been apprehended for some time, but negotiations were opened through certain Corean Ambassadors sent to Japan, and we hope they will have secured a pacific result. The Ambassadors were sent home, with all due honours, on board a Japanese steamer; and our Special Artist, having obtained permission to share the voyage, is enabled to furnish a Sketch of the scene on deck, with their Corean Excellencies patiently enduring the tedious passage across that narrow sea'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_254
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
23,9Mo (2,5Mo) / 29,9cm x 20,0cm / 3526 x 2365 (300dpi)