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Meiji, Emperor of Japan

after Edoardo Chiossone
albumen print, 1888
5 3/8 in. x 3 5/8 in. (136 mm x 92 mm) image size
Given by Martin Plaut, 2012
Primary Collection
NPG P1700(71a)

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  • Edoardo Chiossone (1833-1898), Italian engraver and painter. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

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Current affairs

Charles Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, is responsible for the Local Government Act, a landmark piece of reform that establishes 62 elected county councils and over sixty county boroughs, with responsibility for roads, bridges, drains and general county business.
Five prostitutes are murdered, and their bodies mutilated, in Whitechapel, East London, by an unidentified killer who became known as 'Jack the Ripper'. The murderer was never discovered.

Art and science

Heinrich Hertz performs experiments validating James Clark Maxwell's model of electromagnetic radiation, a form of wireless energy transfer. His apparatus for generating electromagnetic waves is recognised as the first radio transmitter.
The term 'arts and crafts' is coined by the bookbinder T J Cobden-Sanderson with the establishment of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

International

Accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the German throne. Wilhelm, the son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was the last Kaiser of Germany.
George Eastman invents the Kodak box camera, the first commercially successful box camera for roll film, with the slogan 'you press the button - we do the rest'.

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John Akiyama

19 April 2019, 07:37

This is a photograph by Maruki Riyo (1854 - 1923) and Shin'ichi Suzuki (1835 - 1918) of a drawing by Eduardo Chiossone