Open book spread: Books & Writing, with Japanese-style illustrations – 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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Step back in time with Open book spread: Books & Writing, with Japanese-style illustrations, a historic print rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Open book spread: Books & Writing, with Japanese-style illustrations
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An open book spread with Japanese-style illustrations, set among the book and writing subjects of this board, shows how printed Japanese imagery reached Western readers and designers. The record gives no maker, date, or publisher, so the piece is best read through its genre: pages like these typically pair block-printed or lithographic images with text in a way that borrows the flat color, bold outlines, and compressed space of woodblock prints. Japanese prints drew wide attention in Europe and America from the 1860s onward, and book and magazine illustrators took up those conventions as a fashionable style. Look at how the figures and patterned surfaces fill the page without deep perspective.
| Original scan | 4,525 × 3,665 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08650_ |
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