[James Watt, inventor of the steam engine]

Japanese print shows Watt collecting steam from a boiling kettle while his aunt rebukes him for his nonsense.Title devised by Library staff.Extensive, unidentified Japanese writing on backing sheet of paper. Annotation written in pencil on mount: James Watt 1736-1819. Typescript caption on mount: James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, collects steam from a boiling kettle while his aunt rebukes him for his nonsense.Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 186; 47623a (white label); 42; LC2585.Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan / Ann Yonemura. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990, no. 73 (p. 171)Earlier control number: 236.3-34.Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)