1861
Picture of the Interior of an American Steamship
Utagawa YoshikazuJapanese, active c. 1850-70
In this print, Yoshikazu has employed the Japanese artistic convention for rendering architectural interiors, depicting them from a high viewpoint as if the building's roof (or in this case the ship's upper deck and sidewall) has been removed. This unusual perspective allows the artist to portray the contents more completely than would be possible from a level standpoint. The traditional format is combined with a dependence on Western pictorial models for figures and other details, resulting in a contrived scene culled from more than one source.
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