Japanese book cover with elephant and oval scene of woman and child – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Japanese book cover with elephant and oval scene of woman and child comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. 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.
Japanese book cover with elephant and oval scene of woman and child
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Few pictures in this group show an elephant, and this cover pairs one with an oval vignette of a woman and a child. Such covers were printed to catch the eye of buyers in bookshops, so the pairing of an exotic animal with an intimate domestic scene was likely meant to attract attention and suggest a range of subjects inside. Japanese illustrators of the Meiji period (1868–1912) often combined older woodblock conventions with Western ideas of portraiture and composition, and oval framing was one of the borrowed forms. Look at how the printed lines and color blocks are layered, since that craft shows how the cover was made.
| Original scan | 3,660 × 4,565 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08694_ |
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