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[Fiddlehead fern] – Antique Print

[Fiddlehead fern] — historic print
[Fiddlehead fern]. Historic print 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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Curled tight like the scroll of a violin, the young frond shown here is a fiddlehead, the unopened shoot of a fern, rendered in a few confident woodblock lines. The record dates the sheet tentatively to around 1798, while its subject headings place the ferns in Japan during the 1800s, a span that falls within the Edo period, when woodblock printing flourished in books and verse collections. Printed pages of this kind often paired pictures with poetry, which the catalog's poetry heading suggests here. The two-page format hints that the sheet was meant to be read as part of a larger work.

Medium1 print (2 pages) : woodcut.
Genredreams and substances
Notes[1798?]
SubjectsPoetry--1790-1800. Ferns--Japan--1800-1810.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,669 × 4,570 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222096

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