The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, which impression we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
Framing this sheet
- 50 × 40 cm sheet
- A 50 × 40 cm frame, no mat. Nearest standard 20 × 16 in. Margins 6.42 cm each side, 6.79 above, 7.81 below.
- 70 × 50 cm sheet
- A 70 × 50 cm frame. Nearest standard 28 × 20 in. Margins 5.60 cm each side, 4.57 above, 5.25 below.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side. Do not trim the sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, 1830–33
- Object
- Colour woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban yoko-e, 25.4 × 37.6 cm
- Held by
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession
- 1952.343 (AIC object 77333)
- File
- The museum's own IIIF endpoint, at high resolution
- Crop
- [88, 100, 7908, 5444] → 7820 × 5344 px, ratio 1.4633
- Printed at
- 50 × 40 cm sheet: image 37.17 × 25.40 cm, original size, 1:1 — 534 dpi available
70 × 50 cm sheet: image 58.80 × 40.18 cm, 1.58× — 338 dpi available
Which impression, and why this one
Every impression is a separate pull from the blocks, printed in a different year and faded differently — and on this design the first thing to go is the pink of the dawn sky behind Fuji. We print Chicago's impression rather than the Metropolitan's for exactly that reason: the Met sheet has lost its dawn. Chicago's digitisation is also about two and a half times larger in each dimension, which is why every size on this listing is backed natively.
What we measured
The printed block runs 7820 × 5344 px in the museum's file, a ratio of 1.4633 against the catalogued 1.4803 — the difference is the width of a hand-trimmed edge. The scale is anchored on the catalogued sheet height of 25.4 cm. Both print files are built at a flat 300 dpi, the most matte fine art paper resolves; nothing is enlarged in software.
What we are allowed to sell
The work. Hokusai died in 1849 and the series was published in the 1830s: public domain in Switzerland, the EU, the UK and the United States alike.
The photograph. The Art Institute of Chicago publishes images of public-domain works under Creative Commons Zero, for any purpose including commercial use. The file came from the museum's own endpoint, not from an aggregator.
What we do not claim. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. Not a woodblock print, and not sold as one.
Please measure before you buy or cut. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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