1st Edition

On Collecting Japanese Colour-Prints Being an Introduction to the Study and Collection of the Colour-prints of the Ukiyoye School of Japan

By Basil Stewart Copyright 1917
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1917, On Collecting Japanese-Prints is meant to assist the amateur who has started a collection for the first time, or the person who, while not actually a collector, is sufficiently interested to read about the subject, yet finds the more exhaustive and advanced works thereon somewhat beyond them. How to distinguish forgeries and imitations; what prices should be given; what... Read more

Preface 1. How Colour-Prints were Produced 2. On Forming a Collection 3. Forgeries, imitations, and Reprints 4. Some Account of the Artists of the Ukiyoye School 5. Artists of the Ukiyoye School 6. The Landscape Artists, Hokusai and Hiroshige 7. Subjects Portrayed by the Ukiyoye Artists 8. Japanese Chronology as Applied to the Dating of Prints

Biography

Basil Stewart