Rare and Valuable Japanese Color Prints From Three Different Collections: Rare and Beautiful Examples of the Primitives, Excellent Examples of Harunobu, Koriusai, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro, Including Fine - Hardcover

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9780266781936: Rare and Valuable Japanese Color Prints From Three Different Collections: Rare and Beautiful Examples of the Primitives, Excellent Examples of Harunobu, Koriusai, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro, Including Fine

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ISBN 10: 0266781934 ISBN 13: 9780266781936

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Rare and Valuable Japanese Color Prints From Three Different Collections: Rare and Beautiful Examples of the Primitives, Excellent Examples of Harunobu, Koriusai, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro, Including Fine Triptychs, an Unusually Important Series of Landscapes by Hokusai and Hiroshige

A series of about thirty Chinese color prints may, however, deserve a word of comment.

We have all seen Chinese color prints that are in reality hasty reprints of the chieh-tse-yuan hua-chuan or Treatise on Painting from the Mustard Seed Garden, printed in Japan towards 1812, or printed in China about 1890 and 1906. Color and lines of these worthless reprints are equally lacking in character, and give no more idea of the charm and quality of the old prints than an oleograph sold in the country fair gives an idea of the Sistine Madonna.

The early Chinese color prints have never been offered in this country and have escaped everybody's vigilance. Only Mr. Langdon Warner, in Philadelphia, treasures an early edition of another Chinese book With color prints, the shi-chu-chai-shu Hua or Register of the Ten Bamboo Hall in Word and Picture and the Far Eastern department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses several of the early prints and also a stone printing slab Which, in my opinion, has been used for color printing.

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