James Watt, inventor of the steam engine - 2, Historic Print

Drawn from the Library of Congress archive, this print depicts James Watt, inventor of the steam engine - 2. The Library holds one of the most comprehensive collections of American and international historical prints in the world.

Library of Congress record: Created Japan : Japanese Department of Education, between 1850 and 1900 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;.

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