Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo) — About This Work
Utagawa Hiroshige, mid-1830s
About the Work
Travellers approach Azuma Shrine beneath diagonally driven rain, its straight white lines creating the storm.
The view adapts a traditional Chinese Eight Views poetic subject to the outskirts of Edo.
Imported synthetic blue enlivens the subdued landscape; the museum records a 21.6 by 34.4 cm sheet.
The Work
Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Title: Night Rain at the Azuma Shrine (from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo)
Date: mid-1830s
Medium: Colour woodblock print
Recorded dimensions: 34.4 × 21.6 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1942.145
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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