1857 Wood Engraving Mother Child Portrait Macau China MC Perry Japan XGA5 PANPAC2 featuring architecture by Garvin Hodson

featuring architecture by Garvin Hodson

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1857 Wood Engraving Mother Child Portrait Macau China MC Perry Japan XGA5 PANPAC2 featuring architecture by Garvin HodsonThis is an original 1857 black and white wood engraving of a Chinese Woman and Child of Macao (Macau), China, from United States Naval Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to the Orient. Between the years of 1852 and 1854, President Millard Filmore ordered United States Navy Commodore Matthew Clabraith Perry to lead a squadron to Japan in order to establish diplomatic relations, open economic trade ports and protect American property and seamen in