{"product_id":"katsushika-hokusai-tama-river-in-musashi-province-1831-giclee-print","title":"Katsushika Hokusai – Tama River in Musashi Province, 1831 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eMount 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is\u003c\/strong\u003e — 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e — 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e — 200 gsm matte fine art paper, pigment inks, a white margin on all four sides, unframed, shipped rolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e — Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), \u003cem\u003eTama River in Musashi Province (Bushū Tamagawa)\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003cem\u003eThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e, 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: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-hokusai-tama-river\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-woodblock-prints\"\u003eJapanese Woodblock Prints\u003c\/a\u003e, with Hokusai’s \u003cem\u003eGreat Wave\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRed Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e from the same set of views.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/true-to-scale-how-we-measure-a-work-before-we-print-it\"\u003eTrue to Scale: How We Measure a Work Before We Print It\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"50 × 40 cm \/ 19.7 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65964670452061,"sku":"MUS-074-5040","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"70 × 50 cm \/ 27.6 × 19.7 in — Enlarged, 1.55× original","offer_id":65964670484829,"sku":"MUS-074-7050","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-074-plate.jpg?v=1789846553","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/katsushika-hokusai-tama-river-in-musashi-province-1831-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}