{"product_id":"utagawa-hiroshige-winter-snow-on-the-sumida-river-c-1833-38-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Winter: Snow on the Sumida River, c. 1833–38 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man poles a bamboo raft down the Sumida while the snow comes down. The reeds along the near bank stand capped in white, the far bank is a low white line, and a snow-laden bough hangs across the upper half of the sheet. In the top left corner stands a poem, cut into the block with the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is an ōtanzaku — a tall, narrow format, 38 cm high and 13 wide, made to hang in a narrow space. It is the winter sheet of Hiroshige’s series «Famous Places of Edo in the Four Seasons», published in the 1830s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the Rijksmuseum’s own open-access photograph of the woodblock print. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 38.3 × 12.6 cm — colour woodcut on paper, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — original size, 1:1. Image 12.75 × 38.30 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e40 × 60 cm \/ 15.7 × 23.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — enlarged, 1.40× original. Image 17.84 × 53.60 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA narrow picture on a standard sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tanzaku fits no standard frame. We print it centred on a normal sheet, which leaves the side margins wide — the same thing a mat would do, and it lets you frame in an off-the-shelf 16 × 20 or 16 × 24 inch frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, centred on the sheet. The colour of the museum’s file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858), \u003cem\u003eFuyu Sumidagawa no yuki\u003c\/em\u003e (Winter: Snow on the Sumida River), from the series «Shiki Edo meisho», 1833–38. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1956-771; purchased in 1956 with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-snow-on-the-sumida-1833-38\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65855165464925,"sku":"MUS-065-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 × 60 cm \/ 15.7 × 23.6 in — Enlarged, 1.40× original","offer_id":65855165497693,"sku":"MUS-065-4060","price":79.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-065-sumida-tanzaku-plate_b60efddd-a5c2-4776-85ac-5508d93aa287.jpg?v=1788844296","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/utagawa-hiroshige-winter-snow-on-the-sumida-river-c-1833-38-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}