Hot air balloon test at the Navy Department in Tsukiji.

Japanese triptych print showing foreigners gathered around a hot air balloon surrounded by a crowd of spectators.Title from item.Signature: Hiroshige ga.Similar triptych print reproduced in Yokohama : prints from nineteenth-century Japan by Ann Yonemura, 1990, no. 82 (pp. 186-187) is entitled Tsukiji Kaifunshō Sōrenjō ni oite fūsen otameshi no zu.Seal date: Meiji 10/5/1877.Triptych, one mount.Dimensions are approximate for each section of triptych.Some worm damage on right panel.Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of left panel: BCL [Bella C. Landauer ownership stamp]. Inscription to right of publisher block: (25 sen) [price block].Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).Originally collected by Bella C. Landauer.Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress)