Foreign Topography

24x17 cm

MARINERS TEMPLE AT SIMODA
From nature by Heine | Lith. of SARONY & C.^o New York.

Lithograph from a drawing by Peter Bernard Wilhelm Heine, better known as William or Wilhelm Heine (1827-1885), the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan. Published in Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy. Nicholson, Washington 1856.
Commodore Perry visited the port of Simoda on 18th April 1854, describing the Mariners Temple as one of the handsomest structures in Simoda.