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[Camel] – Vintage Print

[Camel], 1824 — historic print
[Camel], 1824. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Camel], preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A camel and a group of musicians share the sheet, a pairing the record highlights in its subject headings. The design is signed as Utagawa Kuniyasu's, a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni, and its seal date places it in 1824, when camels were still rare in Japan and drew crowds wherever they were shown. The woodblock was cut by Koizumi Minokichi, who lived from 1833 to 1906, so this impression was probably printed decades after the original design appeared, a reminder that popular prints were often recut and reprinted.

Created / published1824
CreatorKoizumi Minokichi 1833-1906 engraver.
Medium1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 34.5 x 24.5 cm. (block) 36.5 x 25 cm. (sheet)
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Signature: Motome ni ōzu Kuniyasu ga (by request). Seal date: year 7 of Bunsei era Monkey 8. Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 36-; 47623a; LC2585; 21. DLC Earlier control number: 4895.3-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
SubjectsCamels--Japan--1820-1830. Musicians--Japan--1820-1830.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,685 × 4,559 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227269

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