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Title: [Imperial Japanese civil guard]
Creator: Langsdorff Group (1803-1807), artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Group of three civil guards seated on tatami mats in interior of house (guards were placed by party of Baron von Rezanoff at Megasaki, Japan).
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): Kaiserliche Civil-Wache/[...?]; (LC, in ink). Vordere [Seite?]. Ref. note: Preliminary drawing for Langsdorff--German edition, Volume I, pp. 245, 250; English edition, Volume I, pp. 283, 288. Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and watercolor 18.2 x 27.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8870125x
BANC PIC 1963.002:1033--ffALB
Subject: Discovery & exploration
Dwellings
Expeditions & surveys
Japan
Military personnel
Voyages to the Pacific

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