Original wood engraving with a busy Japanese tea house: customers seated on the benches, merchants, a laden horse and a porter, beneath the eaves and the signboards in Japanese characters. Signed in the image by Émile Bayard and engraved by C. Laplante. Titled below "Japón. — Una casa de té".
Original wood engraving with a busy Japanese tea house: customers seated on the benches, merchants, a laden horse and a porter, beneath the eaves and the signboards in Japanese characters. Signed in the image by Émile Bayard and engraved by C. Laplante. Titled below "Japón. — Una casa de té".
Medium: Wood engraving.
Artist / after: Émile Bayard (1837-1891).
Engraver / lithographer: Charles Laplante.
Date: 1867.
Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.3 in (30.2 x 21.2 cm).
Condition: Good. Paper lightly toned, with light spots in the margins.