| Produced
between 1856 and 1858 by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858),
"One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" ("Meisho Edo
Hyakkei"), a collection of woodblock prints, has had a
lasting influence on Western art, especially the Imperialists
and Post-impressionist movements. The Japanese gardens in these
prints inspired Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh owned several
of Hiroshige's prints depicting plum trees in bloom. Selected
from the Brooklyn Museum of Art's complete edition of the series,
the thirty dramatic prints in this book of postcards epitomize
Hiroshige's superb compositions.
This book of postcards contain thirty top-quality
reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection.
Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning
postcards are a delight.
17.5cm x 12cm
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