Comprising five oban yoko-e prints; all from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), including the 13th station: Numazu; 14th station: Hara, Mount Fuji in the Morning; 30th station: Hamamatsu; 35th station: Yoshida; and 41st station: Narumi, all framed (Qty: 5) 22cm x 34cm; 33cm x 44.5cm with frame each Provenance: Private English collection, acquired by Henry Lardner Dennys (1852 -1926) thence by descent. Henry Lardner Dennys arrived in Hong Kong in 1868 to serve his articles as a solicitor, and rose to become Crown Solicitor in 1896 and helped negotiate the Treaty for the New Territories for the colony of Hong Kong, and saved Dr Sun Yat Sen – the father of modern China - from capture at the hands of the Imperial police in 1895.
Comprising five oban yoko-e prints; all from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), including the 13th station: Numazu; 14th station: Hara, Mount Fuji in the Morning; 30th station: Hamamatsu; 35th station: Yoshida; and 41st station: Narumi, all framed (Qty: 5) 22cm x 34cm; 33cm x 44.5cm with frame each Provenance: Private English collection, acquired by Henry Lardner Dennys (1852 -1926) thence by descent. Henry Lardner Dennys arrived in Hong Kong in 1868 to serve his articles as a solicitor, and rose to become Crown Solicitor in 1896 and helped negotiate the Treaty for the New Territories for the colony of Hong Kong, and saved Dr Sun Yat Sen – the father of modern China - from capture at the hands of the Imperial police in 1895.
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