Woodblock book page with silhouette of woman holding fan – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Woodblock book page with silhouette of woman holding fan, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Woodblock book page with silhouette of woman holding fan
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A woman's silhouette, drawn in a single dark outline and holding an open fan, fills this woodblock book page, a format that put Japanese figure studies within reach of ordinary readers. Printed from carved blocks, the page would have been produced in a workshop where a publisher, a carver and a printer each handled a separate stage, which is why the line work looks so crisp. Pages like this were often collected into illustrated albums of fashion and daily life, and the fan, a common accessory in such scenes, is a useful clue to the social setting the artist meant to show.
| Original scan | 3,684 × 4,555 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08674_ |
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