View of Shogetsu Pond
1829
Eisen Keisai
Japanese, 1790-1848
Asian Art
This print is believed to be the very first of the aizuri-e done entirely in blue. It consequently set the trend for landscape prints in the 1830s and established the genre.
- Maker/Artist
- Ikeda Eisen
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Color woodblock print on paper
- Locations
- Place made: Japan
- Period
- Edo Period
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 in. (24.1 x 30.2 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 42.91
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frederic B. Pratt
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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