Rare outlet HIROSHIGÉ Landscape Artistic Japan Lithograph 1889 Japanese Antique Print S.Bing Liberty London Corner of Landscape

We are offering a selection of rare and exquisite colour and monochrome chromolithographs from the publication:

ARTISTIC JAPAN a monthly illustrated journal.

Publ. St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane], London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888-1891
Artistic Japan: a monthly illustrated journal of arts and industries

Bing, Samuel, 1838-1905; Huish, Marcus Bourne, 1845-1921; Liberty & Co. (Firm : London)

Duotone Lithograph. Publ. 1889.

FRAGMENTS OF AN ALBUM OF HIROSHIGÉ. A corner of a landscape.

Plate BCC reproduces some fragments from an album of Hiroshigé. It is a corner
of landscape, a river bordered by crvptomerias and by reeds, and crossed by a wooden bridge which rests on an islet in the middle of the stream. Three great fish are moving about in the water, summarily indicated by a circular sweep of the brush. Here is a spider suspended by his web, which autumn wind will shake, we may suppose, for the maple leaves fall withered on the ground. And then a white cock and hen, hastily sketched with red crest, make patent this amusing souvenir in the eye of the Japanese.

Condition: Very good, commensurate to age. Age toning to outside border edges.

The nearest true colour of the actual paper can be seen in the photo that includes the white mount surround.

Dimensions approx: 23.5 x 32cm (9”x 12.5”)

Image size approx: 16.5cm x 24.5cm

This print is over 120 years old.

Shipped tracked and insured.

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Among the publications that appeared toward the end of the 19th century with the aim of educating the European and American public about the art of Japan, few were as successful or as visually compelling as ARTISTIC JAPAN. Appearing in monthly instalments from mid 1888-1891 the magazine reached wide audiences by being printed in three languages ( French, German and English). This international character paralleled the breadth of the JAPONISME movement of which ARTISTIC JAPAN became one of the most visible and popular manifestations. The issues were lavishly illustrated, taking advantage of the most modern achievements in colour printing and included examples of Japanese art selected from leading European collections. The magazine became a visual encyclopaedia of Japanese art and a valuable source of inspiration for artists and designers around the globe perhaps most notably the artist Vincent Van Gogh.

Founded and compiled by the German art dealer S. (Siegfied) Bing (1838-1905).

Bing's declared aim in producing the journal was to “stimuler l'intérêt des amateurs”and “exercer une influence sur le goût, la culture, l'art et la constitution des collections publiques et privées” (stimulate the interest of amateurs and to influence the taste, culture, art and formation of public and private collections) in the art of Japan. One of the publication's chief sponsors was the fashionable London retail firm Liberty & Co. who had a full-page colour advertisement for their art fabrics on the back page of every issue of the English edition.The journal contains a series of illustrated essays on architecture, engraving, Hokusai's “Man-gwa”, the decoration of swords, Ritsuo and his School, netsukés and okimonos, the theatre in Japan, Hiroshigé, the poetic tradition in Japanese art, outlet Animals in Japanese art, and Korin.Among contributors to Artistic Japan were Edmond de Goncourt, Roger Marx, Victor Champier, and Eugène Guillaume. The editor of the English edition was Marcus B. Huish (1843-1921).