"1 photolithograph from a photograph of a statue, the Daibutz, in Japan, 4 photolithographs Japanese woodcuts with two additional colors...Photolithographs of art are here done with two added color tints."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 38
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
In: Across America and Asia : notes of a five years' journey around the world and of residence in Arizona, Japan and China / by Raphael Pumpelly. New York : Leypoldt & Holt, 1870, c1869 -- "The woodcuts are engraved by Messrs. W.J. and H.D. Linton." -- Across America and Asia, p. vi -- "An essay on Japanese art" by John La Farge (Across America and Asia, p. [195]-202) indentifies "Hoksai" as the artist for a "sample of his playful fancy ... in the fac-similes of the book." -- Title supplied by cataloger