{"product_id":"hiroshige-enoshima-caves-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Sagami Province: The Caves at Enoshima, 1853 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eLow tide at Enoshima. The sea has drawn back far enough to walk in, and Hiroshige puts us down at the waterline, looking up at the eroded rock and into the dark mouth of the cave. Above the cliff, a few wind-bent pines; across the bay, Mount Fuji, pale and small under a band of early pink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe caves — \u003cem\u003eiwaya\u003c\/em\u003e — were the reason people made the crossing to the island: inside was a shrine to Benzaiten, and it could be reached only when the tide allowed. Hiroshige leaves the pilgrims out. What is left is water, rock and the black opening, stacked up the tall sheet of the ōban format he used throughout this series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhich impression.\u003c\/strong\u003e Woodblocks wear and pigments fade, so no two surviving sheets look alike. This one is the Art Institute of Chicago's, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson. The deep water is still dark blue and the graded sky above the horizon has kept its pink — the two colours that go first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one — a woodblock print is pulled by hand from cut cherry blocks, and the good impressions are in museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 37 × 25.3 cm \/ 14.6 × 10.0 in — Art Institute of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Original size, 1:1\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Enlarged, 1.7× original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is the ōban a buyer in 1853 held in his hands. Enlarged, the surf comes up to the size it suggests and the grain of the block shows in the flat blue — a different picture, and a deliberate one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is reproduced whole, including the title cartouche and the publisher's seals. Nothing is cropped away but the museum's mount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nUtagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), \u003cem\u003eSagami Province: Entrance to the Caves at Enoshima (Sagami, Enoshima iwaya no kuchi)\u003c\/em\u003e, from the series \u003cem\u003eFamous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1853; colour woodblock print, ōban, 37 × 25.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson, Acc. No. 1965.962.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic domain. The museum publishes its digitisation under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65761681342813,"sku":"MUS-016-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.7× original","offer_id":65761681375581,"sku":"MUS-016-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-hiroshige-enoshima-caves-plate.jpg?v=1788241920","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-enoshima-caves-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}