The 50 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1

Katsushika Hokusai – Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 | Giclée Print

50 × 40 cm / 19.7 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1
CHF 59.00
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The 50 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • The 50 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • Katsushika Hokusai, Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 — Mount Fuji across a wide blue river, a ferry and a packhorse on the bank; the Basel blue-outline impression
  • The 70 × 50 cm sheet hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size on the 70 × 50 cm sheet: the ferry with its passengers and cargo, the waves cut in blue
  • The 50 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • Katsushika Hokusai, Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 — Mount Fuji across a wide blue river, a ferry and a packhorse on the bank; the Basel blue-outline impression
  • The 70 × 50 cm sheet hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size on the 70 × 50 cm sheet: the ferry with its passengers and cargo, the waves cut in blue
Katsushika Hokusai – Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 | Giclée Print

Katsushika Hokusai – Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 | Giclée Print

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Mount Fuji stands far off across the flats, and in front of it the Tama River runs wide and shallow in bands of blue. A ferry crosses with two passengers and a heap of cargo; on the near bank a traveller leads a packhorse along the shore. Hokusai left most of the sheet empty — a broad band of mist lies between the river and the mountain.

This impression from the Kunstmuseum Basel is one of the rare pulls printed with blue rather than black outlines, which gives the whole sheet its light, shimmering air.

What this is — A giclée reproduction of a colour woodblock print, printed on fine art paper. It is not an original print, and it is not sold as one. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected.

Scale — On the 50 × 40 sheet the print is reproduced at its original size, 1:1, 36.7 × 25.8 cm. On the 70 × 50 sheet it is enlarged to 1.55×, 56.9 × 40.0 cm — the largest the museum file holds at 300 dpi.

The print — 200 gsm matte fine art paper, pigment inks, a white margin on all four sides, unframed, shipped rolled.

Where this comes from — Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Tama River in Musashi Province (Bushū Tamagawa), from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, 1831, colour woodblock print, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi; Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, bequest of Dr. Carl Mettler, 1942. The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

From the same series — Japanese Woodblock Prints, with Hokusai’s Great Wave and Red Fuji from the same set of views.

Further reading — True to Scale: How We Measure a Work Before We Print It.

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

From the same series