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Evening shower at Ōhashi Bridge, Atake
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Description
People crossing the large bridge are caught in a summer rainstorm. This atmospheric print is one of the most famous of Hiroshige’s images and was copied in oils by Vincent van Gogh. The effect of the driving rain is created by using two separate woodblocks to overlay fine lines of slightly different greys in slightly different directions.
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Details
- Series
- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Associated place
- Date
- designed 1857
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797 - 1858) (designer)
- Associated people
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Uoya Eikichi (active mid-19th century) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.5 x 40.2 cm (height x width)
print 34.9 x 23.3 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4740
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, Hiroshige's Views of Tokyo: A Selection from the Woodblock-Print Series ‘One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo’ by Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993), no. 10 on p. 10, illus. p. 21 pl. 10
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Hiroshige’s Views of Tokyo
Well known in the West, as it was copied by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, this is surely the masterpiece of the series. The New Great Bridge of the title was actually built in 1693; Atake (properly Fukagawa) is the land in the distance, with boat-houses just visible at the left.
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