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Fuji-Pilgrims / Japanische Pilger auf dem Weg zum Fujiyama

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1951,0501.17

• Title (object)

  • Fuji-Pilgrims
  • Japanische Pilger auf dem Weg zum Fujiyama

• Description

  A large group of Japanese pilgrims dressed in traditional costume are walking down a path, ascending mount Fuji. 1901 Colour woodcut

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Emil Orlik

• School/style

  • German

• Date

  • 1901

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • woodcut
  • colour

• Dimensions

  • Height: 240 millimetres
  • Width: 425 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Signed in pencil:' Emil Orlik Tokio 1901'

• Curator's comments

  In order to study the techniques of woodblock printmaking, Orlik embarked upon a two-month sea voyage, arriving in Japan in April 1900. He spent approximately ten months in Japan, where he visited ukiyo-e block carvers and printers and executed a large numbers of prints in a Japanese style. For the uncoloured proof state of this print, see 1949,0411.4512.
  For this print, see Birget Ahrens & Peter Voss-Andreae, 'Emil Orlik in Japan', Hamburg 2012, cat.13.

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• Location

  Not on display (German XIXc Mounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • japanese

• Associated places

  • Associated with: Japan
  • (Asia,Japan)

• Acquisition name

  • Bequeathed by: Campbell Dodgson

• Acquisition date

  1951

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1951,0501.17