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Watercolor of Mount Fuji and a flower on a bound album page – Antique Print

Watercolor of Mount Fuji and a flower on a bound album page — historic print
Watercolor of Mount Fuji and a flower on a bound album page. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Few images capture their era like this historic print of Watercolor of Mount Fuji and a flower on a bound album page. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Watercolor of Mount Fuji and a flower on a bound album page

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Mount Fuji appears here in a watercolor, not a woodblock print, set on a page from a bound album, with a flower placed beside it. That pairing of a sacred peak and a single blossom is a long-running motif in Japanese painting, where Fuji stands for the country itself and flowers for the changing seasons. Album leaves like this one were often painted by hand for private viewing, so the work reads as a personal study rather than a mass-produced image. Its softer washes and open paper show a different side of Japanese art than the bold color of the woodblock prints around it.

Original scan3,694 × 4,565 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
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