An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the battle for Nanking. Colour lithograph by T. Miyano.

[Japan], [between 1900 and 1999]

1 print : chromolithograph ; image 33.8 x 46.2 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 fall of Nanking. Attack on government army.

Wellcome Collection 645511i