Three Japanese men with painting materials, labelled "My Artists – Historic Print
(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: Three Japanese men with painting materials, labelled "My Artists, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Three Japanese men with painting materials, labelled "My Artists
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Three men stand together holding brushes, pigments and other painting materials, and the label "My Artists" suggests the picture was made to record the people behind the work rather than a finished print. Group studio portraits like this became common in Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as photography spread and artists and printmakers sat for pictures of their workshops. The record does not name the sitters or the studio, but the tools they hold point to the brush-and-pigment craft at the core of Japanese woodblock printmaking, where a design was painted, carved into blocks and printed by hand.
| Original scan | 4,463 × 3,567 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08489_ |
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