"PASSING THE RUBICON"

color lithograph

PRINTS - LITHOGRAPHS
Sarony & Co.; Brown, Eliphalet M. (Jr.)
JAPAN: Yedo
1855
paper
Overall: 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.

Hand colored lithograph; copyrighted 1855; Drawing by (Peter Bernard) William Heine (American, born in Germany, 1827–1885); Published, New York, by E. Brown, Jr; printed by Sarony & Company; Title: "PASSING THE RUBICON / Liet. S. Bent in the Mississippi's first cutter forcing his way through a fleet of Japanese boats while surveying the Bay of Yedo, Japan, July 11, 1853"

UNIDENTIFIED junk
1963.352