Katsushika School
Sketches
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Unsigned sketches of various subjects, mainly figural and all in the distinctive style of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), have been cut out and pasted onto this sheet. Such sketches were the basis for the detailed copyists’ drawings used to make the initial block in the production of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
The overall effect is reminiscent of the printed sketch books and drawing manuals Hokusai produced over his career, in which he grouped drawings, often of the same subject matter, together on the page.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- E.469-1949
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
