An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the battle at the Ta-ping gate at Nanking. Colour lithograph by T. Miyano.

[Japan], [between 1900 and 1999]

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 33 x 46.6 cm.

The series continues the tradition of war prints issued at the time of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1905), but those were woodblock prints. Here, the traditional technique has been abandoned, and western-style lithography used. Perhaps intended for export to China

The battle of the Ta-ping gate at Nanking. T. Miyano.

Wellcome Collection 645501i