An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the revolutionary army, on a hill (left), ambushes part of the imperial army (right) as the latter approaches a city flying the republican flag. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.

[Japan], [between 1900 and 1999]

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 34 x 46.5 cm

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 in favour of western-style lithography. Perhaps intended for export to China

Bears number: 6

Wellcome Library no. 645620i