Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo — About This Work
Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1837–38
About the Work
The print shows Asuka Hill under falling snow, with travellers and a horse moving through the pale landscape beneath a dark, flake-filled sky. Sparse trees and small buildings punctuate the broad white slope.
The series was first produced privately for a poetry club. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that this impression belongs to a later public set and carries a single poem describing snow so heavy that it covers warnings against breaking cherry branches and then breaks the branches itself.
The sheet measures 34.4 × 22 cm. The 30 × 40 cm frame retains the long horizontal format at Original Scale and gives the printed sheet a modest, even surround.
The Work
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Title: Evening Snow at Asuka Hill, from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo
Date: c. 1837–38
Medium: Colour woodblock print
Recorded dimensions: 34.4 × 22 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1940.983
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 40 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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