horizontal oban woodblock print in shades of blue, signed in the block lower right, slightly trimmed within the upper image without loss of detail,
Hiroshige (Utagawa)
Three Carp,
£750
, , c.1840.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the most celebrated printmakers of the Edo period. Such depictions of carp were a popular subject in Japanese culture, and this example may be from an untitled series, known simply as Large Fish, produced by Hiroshige around 1840..
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