The Heine Watercolors
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Pineau, Roger Heine, William (Wilhelm) - watercolors: The Heine Watercolors, c1970, staple bound, paper wraps, large 8vo (8 x 12 in. - 20.5 x 30.8 cm), 6 color illustrations and 1 black and white illustration, text in Japanese and English, 16 pp. The title page reads "The Heine Watercolors, The Japan Expedition 1852-1855 of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, As Exhibited in the Residence, American Embassy, Tokyo, 1970." The page opposite each of the six watercolors contains extracts from the Narrative of the Expedition or Commodore Perry's notes which pertain to the subject of the painting. The size of the painting and the title it carried when reproduced as a lithograph by Brown are stated below each image. No copyright notice, date of publication or publisher stated. This appears to be an exhibit catalogue for an exhibit held in the Residence, American Embassy, Tokyo, on an unspecified date in 1970. This exhibition included the original watercolors by Wilhelm Heine that were used to create the six large lithographs prepared and sold by Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. in 1855. The cover sheet for this folio of lithographs was also exhibited. Brown's folio of lithographs was titled Illustrations of the Japan Expedition. For more information on that folio, click here. Heine also created as set of lithographs from his art work on the expedition. These were sold loose and in book form under the title Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition by Wm Heine, Artist of the Expedition. Information on that set of prints is here.
Illustrations. Return from Visit to Shuri Castle To illustrate the attention to detail in the rendering a Heine's watercolor painting to a chromolithograph, below are examples of both for the Passing the Rubicon image.
Heine's Original Watercolor
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