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Notes (1st edition)
Publisher (this edition): Unknown Unknown
Date of this item: 1891 1891
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: 		25/08/2005

 Title Beauty in the Snow (Meiji Lithograph)
Artist Tadahisa Watanabe active in 1890s
Signature "Watanabe Tadahisa" printed as the artist on the lower margin
Dated 1891
Publisher Seikyou-do
Technique/Medium Lithograph
Impression very good
Colors good … hand colored lithograph
Condition good … paper toned, slight wrinkles, a tear (ca. 2 inch long) from the bottom edge repaired.
Description "Secchuu Bijin" (Beauty in the Snow). Lithograph enjoyed great popularity during Meiji era because of its ease for mass-production and strange realism it conveyed. It started to be widely used around 1880 with hand colored publications and quickly developed into multi-colored commercial applications replacing woodblock printing.
Width 12.2 inches = 31.0 cm
Height 16.6 inches = 42.2 cm
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