Medium includes graphite. This relates to the official visit of Crown Prince Hirohito to Britain in May 1921 in the Japanese battleships 'Katori' and 'Kashima', an event of which Wyllie did two oil paintings originally commissioned by Kojiro Matsukata, President of Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, but now in the Museum of the Imperial Collections (Imperial Household Agency), Tokyo. The hoist of flags is shown as from a warship foremast but is, for example, the one shown between the two mastheads of the Admiralty yacht 'Enchantress' in the background of upper Portsmouth harbour in the painting of the two Japanese ships moored alongside the Railway and Pitch House Jetties there. The sketch is apparently not by Wyllie, since lacking his fluency and the accompanying notes are not in his writing. It was presumably done carefully for him by someone else - probably naval - with specialist knowledge of the rules for dressing ships overall. PAE3353 is by the same hand. [PvdM 6/18]