Russian Vessels, from the Album of seven prints of Russian Army and Warship (Roshia seigi shashin kan)
Keiga
1853
Medium
Color woodblock print
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
14894
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Keiga · 1786–1860
Kawahara Keiga (also known as Toyosuke or Taguchi Takumi) was a leading late Edo-period painter born in Nagasaki in 1786 as the son of the artist Kawahara Kozan. He received early training as an apprentice in the family print shop before studying under the prominent Nagasaki painter Ishizaki Yūshi (1768–1846), Inspector of Chinese Painting, with whom he formed a lifelong mentor-disciple relationsh...