{"product_id":"hiroshige-mount-daisen-ono-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Hōki Province: Distant View of Mount Daisen from Ono, 1853 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eRain over the rice fields at Ono. Hiroshige rules the whole sheet with fine diagonal lines — the woodblock shorthand for rain, each stroke cut into the block by hand — and behind them Mount Daisen stands flat and grey-blue, more a presence than a mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the paddies below, people go on working under wide hats, bent over the flooded terraces, while a line of dark pines holds the middle distance. It is the least dramatic subject in the series and one of the best: weather, distance and labour, held in three bands of colour.\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, from the Frederick W. Gookin Collection: the rain lines are still crisp and unbroken, and the greens of the fields have not gone yellow.\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: 33 × 22.2 cm \/ 13.0 × 8.7 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, 1.8× original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy the border is wider here.\u003c\/strong\u003e We do not enlarge a line-cut work beyond 1.8×: past that, the lines the cutter made stop reading as cut lines. On the 50 × 70 sheet our usual 8 % border would have meant 1.89×, so the border is opened to 10 % and the print stops at 1.8×. A slightly smaller image on the same sheet, on purpose.\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\u003eOno, Distant View of Mount Daisen in Hōki Province (Hōki, Ono, Daisen enbō)\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, 33 × 22.2 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Frederick W. Gookin Collection, Acc. No. 1939.1504.\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":65761699856733,"sku":"MUS-017-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.8× original","offer_id":65761699889501,"sku":"MUS-017-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-hiroshige-mount-daisen-plate.jpg?v=1788241970","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-mount-daisen-ono-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}