Fuji from Yoshiwara
- Title:
- Fuji from Yoshiwara
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1860-1900
- ID Number:
- 84.120.073
- File Name:
- 84.120.073.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
hand coloring - Subject:
- Tourism, landscape, scenery, commercial landscape photography
Mt. Fuji
Yoshiwara
Japan - Measurement:
- 20.3 x 25.4 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Looking from an elevation, across a town, toward snow-capped Mount Fuji. In the foreground, a path with pedestrians cuts between a waterway and a field, headed toward a town of thatched roof buildings. Cutting horizontally across the center of the image is a dense line of trees, and beyond them Mount Fuji rises in the distance. Fuji has a wide base, nearly width of the image, and slopes gently up to a soft peak. Its top two-thirds are covered in snow. Fuji and the sky are painted in subtle pastels, while the fields, trees, and other plants are in darker greens and browns. The hand-tinting gives the image a soft, painterly quality.
- Notes:
- Hand-colored albumen print.
One of a number of commercial travel views of Japan held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum. - Cite As:
- Unidentified artist, Fuji from Yoshiwara, 1860–1900. Albumen print with applied color, Image: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm). Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry D. Rosin, 84.120.073.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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