Bankoku keihin denbun mosha shu harimazeTITLE TRANSLATION:Collection of reported international [treasures]. – Antique Wall Art
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(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 print of Bankoku keihin denbun mosha shu harimazeTITLE TRANSLATION:Collection of reported international [treasures].. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bankoku keihin denbun mosha shu harimazeTITLE TRANSLATION:Collection of reported international [treasures].
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Rather than a landscape, this sheet shows a French horse race over fences, a sight that would have looked strange to Japanese viewers, alongside an orchid said to come from Borneo and a South American island. The title, roughly "Collection of reported international treasures," points to the foreign curiosities and news that reached Japan in the mid-1800s, when information about the outside world came mostly through Dutch and Chinese sources. The record credits Utagawa Hiroshige and dates the sheet to 1850, a period when the Utagawa studio produced many single sheets on distant lands. The printed captions are what make its subjects clear today.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 35 x 23.7 cm. (block) 37 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Sanenobu moga(?). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 21; 47623a. DLC Inscriptions: (Orchid from the island of Borneo) (South American island) (Horse race of Frenchmen). Earlier control number: 4715-1. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Steeplechases--Japan--1850-1900. French--Sports--Japan--1850-1900. Orchids--Japan--1850-1900. Islands--South America--1850-1900. Sailing ships--South America--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,587 × 4,501 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227676 |
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