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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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [Japanese drawing]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This drawing is particular for its subject: a drawbridge in Tokyo, with the catalog also tagging it with foreign visitors to the city. The record ties the work to the David Murray Collection of Japanese prints and drawings at the Library of Congress and credits the artist Isoda Koryūsai, who was active in Edo in the later eighteenth century. The dates in the record do not line up, since the 1750 date predates the artist's recorded working years, and the subject tags point to Tokyo between 1850 and 1900, after the city was renamed in 1868. Those gaps are worth keeping in mind when reading the sheet as evidence of a specific place and moment.

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. color patterns designs
SubjectsDrawbridges--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900. Foreign visitors--Japan--Tokyo--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints
Original scan3,590 × 5,373 px · prints to 12 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227578

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