MS 7431 Chinese and Japanese prints collected by T. Glover Fillette
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: USNM Accession Number 24739

USNM Catalog Number 152751
name: label: Collector
content: Fillette, T. Glover
place: label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Taiwan
label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Vietnam
label: Place
content: East Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Sino-French War, 1884-1885
label: Topic
content: Circus
creator: label: Collector
content: Fillette, T. Glover
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: MS 7431 Chinese and Japanese prints collected by T. Glover Fillette
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: T. Glover Fillette was an officer in the United States Marine Corps.  He served on the USS Enterprise, a neutral warship moored at the Pagoda Anchorage during the Battle of Fuzhou, the opening engagement of the Sino-French war.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1885
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The prints were collected by T. G. Fillette in 1888-1889; he donated them to the Smithsonian Institution in 1891.  They were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins in November 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7431
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Woodblock prints
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Three prints in this collection were originally cataloged under numbers MS 7431, MS 7432, and MS 7433, with data furnished by Chang-su Houchins, Department of Anthropology. The remaining five prints were not cataloged.  In 2022, the collection was reprocessed.  All eight prints were incorporated into a single collection under MS 7431.  Untitled drawings were assigned titles in square brackets [].
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Woodblock prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection conists of eight (8) Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints.  Seven (7) of the prints deal with the Sino-French war (1884-1885) and Chinese-French relations in the latter half of the nineteenth cenutry.  According to the accession records, the prints were meant to illustrate the "French war in Tonkin from the Chinese point of view," but several of the prints were made in Japan.  One (1) print depicts an Italian traveling circus.

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