Sujet

The Far East: Sketches in Korea, 1898. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Far East: Sketches in Korea, 1898. 'Fort commanding the entrance to We-Hai-Wei; the Doctor returning from shopping at Chemulpo; At a Joss-House, Yung-Shing. [From sketches] by W. G. Littlejohns, R.N., and F. J. Roskruge, R.N. Korea, Key to the Yellow Sea. That singular and sequestered country, almost the Farthest East of the vast width of continent forming Europe and Asia in northern temperate regions of the globe, being, as it is, a peninsula of the North Pacific Ocean coast, in nearly the same latitude as Spain, Italy, and Turkey, seems now likely to become again, from its proximity to Siberia and to China and to the insular kingdom of Japan, the object of contention in a strife for Imperial conquest. It is really the coveted possession of Korea, left undecided by the war between Japan and China a few years ago, that has brought about the menaced violent disturbance at the present moment in the relative positions of all maritime commercial nations, but principally that of Great Britain, Russia and Germany'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A15_115

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

17.8Mo (974.9Ko) / 22.7cm x 19.6cm / 2684 x 2318 (300dpi)

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