Japanese Woodblock Prints
Japanese Woodblock Prints
The Property of a Lady
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Fukagawa Susaki and Jumantsubo (Fukagawa Susaki Jumantsubo) | Edo period, 19th century
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March 23, 02:37 PM GMT
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The Property of a Lady
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Fukagawa Susaki and Jumantsubo (Fukagawa Susaki Jumantsubo)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), censor’s seal aratame (certified), published by Uoya Eikichi, intercalary 5th month 1857
Vertical oban: 35.3 x 24.4 cm., 13⅞ x 9⅝ in.
One of the most dramatic designs in this series. An eagle flies high in the sky over the plain of Susaki on a snowy night. The eagle's wings spread across the upper section of the print framing the scene in which Mount Tsukuba can be seen in the distance far below.
Prints such as this with large foreground objects became of particular interest to the Impressionists and Post Impressionists and this design amongst others came to be highly prized amongst collectors when Japanese prints arrived in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century.
For another impression of the same print in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1906,1220,0.727, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-727