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[Japanese drawing] – Vintage Wall Art

[Japanese drawing], 1750 — historic drawing
[Japanese drawing], 1750. Historic drawing 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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This drawing is set at a drawbridge in Tokyo, a subject the catalog ties to foreign visitors, which points to a scene from the decades after Japan opened its ports to Western trade in the 1850s. The record's dates don't line up, though. It lists 1750, while the artist, Isoda Koryūsai, is recorded as working between 1764 and 1788, and the subject headings describe 1850 to 1900. Koryūsai was a Edo-based printmaker known for elegant figure studies and landscapes, so the mismatch is worth noting for anyone using this sheet as a dated source.

Created / published1750
CreatorIsoda Koryūsai fl. 1764-1788 artist.
Medium1 drawing.
NotesForms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Forms part of the David Murray Collection.
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan5,366 × 3,633 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227594

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