Galerie Christian Collin

(1839 - 1892)

No. 647: The suicide of two foreign clerks who embezzled funds from a French bank in Yokohama, but were overtaken by an English ship as they attempted to escape

Woodblock print

1875

Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun), published by Ebisuya Shôshichi. Censor's seal boar 4.

The Yūbin hōchi shinbun was a newspaper founded in 1873. Yoshitoshi was hired in 1875 to illustrate a wide variety of subjects like political, crime, public interest and ghost stories...

Sheet: ôban (366 x 246 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Condition: slightly light-staining, otherwise in good condition.