Japanese woodblock theatre print pasted on handwritten album page – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Japanese woodblock theatre print pasted on handwritten album page in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Japanese woodblock theatre print pasted on handwritten album page
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A woodblock print of a kabuki actor has been pasted onto a page of handwritten album text, so the image and the writing share the same sheet. That pairing is what sets this piece apart from a loose print. Collectors often mounted prints this way in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using albums to record favorite performers, theater seasons, or travels. The print itself follows the long tradition of ukiyo-e, in which artists produced affordable images of actors in their famous roles, and the handwritten notes add a personal layer that reveals how the prints were once enjoyed and kept.
| Original scan | 3,679 × 4,588 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08645_ |
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