Antique Print of a Banquet for Japanese Commissioners by Hawks (1856)

Description: Antique print titled 'Dinner given to the Japanese commissioners on board U.S.S.F. Powhatan‘. View of a banquet given for the Japanese commissioners on board the U.S.S. Powhatan, possibly in the bay at Edo (Tokyo). This print originates from 'Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry (..)' by Francis L. Hawks. 

Artists and Engravers: Lithographs after W. Heine and E. Brown.