Ink sketches of a songbird, a swallow and waves in an album – Antique Print
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This historic print of Ink sketches of a songbird, a swallow and waves in an album brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ink sketches of a songbird, a swallow and waves in an album
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Three subjects share this album page: a songbird, a swallow, and waves, each rendered in quick ink strokes. Japanese artists often kept albums like this as working notebooks, recording birds, plants and water from life and returning to them as practice for finished paintings. The swallow carries particular weight in Japanese art, where it signals spring and the seasonal return, and waves were a recurring motif in ink painting that rewarded economy of line. Pairing a bird with a swallow and water in one album suggests a study of nature shaped by the brush itself, not a single finished composition.
| Original scan | 3,660 × 4,565 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08688_ |
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