The 30 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1

Tōshūsai Sharaku – The Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as Ippei, 1794 | Giclée Print

30 × 40 cm / 11.8 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1
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The 30 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • The 30 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • Tōshūsai Sharaku, The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as the Footman Ippei, 1794 — bust portrait in a red robe gripping a sword hilt, on a dark mica ground
  • The 50 × 70 cm sheet hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size on the 50 × 70 cm sheet: the actor's face, the red make-up around the eyes
  • The 30 × 40 cm sheet, unframed, with its white border — the print at original size, 1:1
  • Tōshūsai Sharaku, The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as the Footman Ippei, 1794 — bust portrait in a red robe gripping a sword hilt, on a dark mica ground
  • The 50 × 70 cm sheet hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size on the 50 × 70 cm sheet: the actor's face, the red make-up around the eyes
Tōshūsai Sharaku – The Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as Ippei, 1794 | Giclée Print

Tōshūsai Sharaku – The Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as Ippei, 1794 | Giclée Print

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The actor Ichikawa Omezō I on the Edo stage in the fifth month of 1794, as the footman Ippei: head thrust forward, eyes cut sharply to one side, mouth pulled down, one hand on the hilt of a sword half out of its scabbard. Sharaku set the half-length figure against a dark ground dusted with mica, so it seems to press out of a glinting night.

Sharaku was active for less than a year, in 1794 and 1795, and his bust portraits of actors are counted among the high points of the woodblock portrait. This sheet passed through a Berlin auction in 1929 and came to Basel in 1942 with the bequest of the collector Carl Mettler.

What this is — A giclée reproduction of a colour woodblock print with mica ground, 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 30 × 40 sheet the print is reproduced at its original size, 1:1, 23.8 × 33.5 cm. On the 50 × 70 sheet it is enlarged to 1.6×, 38.1 × 53.6 cm, at 319 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 — Tōshūsai Sharaku (active 1794–95), The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as the Footman Ippei, 1794, colour woodblock print with mica ground, published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō; 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.

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