[Album of Twenty Copperplate Engravings, Including Seven Maps] by Shuntosai Okada - 1849-60
by Shuntosai Okada
[Album of Twenty Copperplate Engravings, Including Seven Maps]
by Shuntosai Okada
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Album of 20 copperplate engravings mounted on silver-decorated paper; album measures 159 x 118 mm; images measure approximately 145 x 85 mm. Near fine condition.
Japanese artists began experimenting with copperplate engraving in the late eighteenth century but the method achieved popularity for only a brief period in the mid-1800s, primarily in the work of a Kyoto-based group known as Gengendō. The bulk of their work consisted of detailed small engravings of well-known views and pilgrimage sites, often based on existing popular forms such as classic views, schematic maps, layouts of temple precincts, walking guides, etc. The novelty of the foreign medium and its capability of presenting intense detail in a small format presumably contributed to its popularity, a popularity that was soon supplanted by two other media of Western origin, lithography and photography. (For an excellent examination in historical context, see Fowler, Sherry. "Views of Japanese Temples and Shrines from Near and Far: Precinct Prints of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Artibus Asiae 68, no. 2 (2008): 247-85.)
Offered here is an album of twenty copperplates by Okada Shuntosai (fl 1830-1861), a student of Gengendō's founder, Matsumoto Yasuoki (1776-1867). Such albums comprise the bulk of Shuntosai's work in both institutional holdings and on the market, but the sheer number of images in his output and the somewhat random selection and organization of the albums suggest that the prints were usually sold as singles to the Japanese populace and the albums were assembled for collectors or foreigners. Only one print has a romanized caption, SIJOEM TOOCEM for Shuntosai, suggesting that they were primarily aimed at the domestic market.
Several Western institutions have similar albums, including four at the MFA in Boston and one each at five others. The most extensive holdings I have located are in the municipal history museum in the city of Uji, near Kyoto: ten albums with a total of 440 prints, including numerous duplicates. Several have more than the usual twenty prints.
Following is a list of prints in the album, with identifications and dates based on the websites of the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, the MFA and the Uji museum as well as John Clark, Japanese Nineteenth Century Copperplate Prints (British Museum Occasional Papers 84, 1994):
•Three Views in Three Cities, Edo, Kyoto, Osaka; Shuntosai romanized as "Sijoem Toocem"
•Kamakura, Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine
•Enoshima 186
•Eight Warriors
•Enoshima 1861
•Ise 1854
•Kyoto, Parade Floats of the Gion Festival
•Osaka 1858-61
•Four Seasons in Tokyo
•Nara, Famous Places in the Eastern Hills (Higashiyama)
•A Self-guided Tour of the Yamato Region with Nara and Yoshino, 1849
•Nagoya, Atsuta Shrine (not in any referenced collections)
•Kyoto, Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
•Kyoto, Twelve Attractions
•Yamashiro Region of Kyoto Province 1861
•Ōtani, Spectacles Bridge, 1858
•Kyoto 1861
•Kyoto, Views of Famous Places in the Western Hills
•Nihon Sankei—The Three Views of Japan: Miyajima, Matsushima, •Amanohashidate
•Central Peaks of Mt. Hiko, Tagawa County, Buzen Province
Bookplate of James Graham Goodenough (1830-1875) tipped to front cover. Goodenough joined the Royal Navy at age 14 and served in the Pacific, the South Atlantic, the Baltic, on the China station, and as an observer in the US Civil War before his appointment as commodore of the Australian station in 1873. Active in promoting British expansion in the South Pacific, in 1875 he died of wounds inflicted by poison arrows in the Solomon Islands.
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- Date Published 1849-60
A Large Draught of the North Part of China Shewing the Passages and the Chanells into the Harbour of Chusan
by THORNTON, John (1641-1708) & Samuel (fl.1703-39)
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Fifteen Maine Birds.
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Tannhauser, a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner freely translated in poetic narrative form by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany.
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THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. In Search of the Picturesque......In Search of Consolation.......In Search of a Wife
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QUALITY STREET. A comedy in four acts
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(Map of Holy Land- Canaan): Canaan
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Architectural Details 1938
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Japan: Magazine of Overseas Travel 1927. 10 issues from March through December 1927
by [BEAUTIFUL NYK TRAVEL MAGAZINE].
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America.
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Picturesque views by Calvert.
by Frederick Calvert (Cork 1793-1852).
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London, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
Oblong 4°
(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London, Hodgson and Co., 1823) and Rural scenery (London, Hodgson and Co., ca. 1825). He designed plates for Picturesque views ... in Staffordshire and Shropshire (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830-1831), and for A new and compendious history, of the county of Warwick (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830). Perhaps his most famous work was for The Isle of Wight illustrated (1846).
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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