“America”: A Native American Woman on Horseback in the Snow
In Yokohama prints, created to memorialize the arrival of foreigners in Japan in the mid-1850s, Americans were generally visualized in two different ways: either in fanciful representations of Native Americans, as seen here, or as elaborately garbed white aristocrats. Such stereotypes were created when artists, lacking direct experience of foreigners, relied on visual information through unreliable sources such as newspaper cartoons and other printed ephemera.
Artwork Details
- 二代歌川広重 「亜墨利加」
- Title: “America”: A Native American Woman on Horseback in the Snow
- Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Japanese, 1826–1869)
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 1860
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical ōban
- Dimensions: Image: 14 x 9 7/8 in. (35.6 x 25.1 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
- Object Number: 2007.49.142
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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