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context: painting

Printmaking

Maple Trees, by Hiroshige

This section covers the printmaking that was centred on Edo from the late 17th C through to the turn of the 20th C. I've tried to organise it so that you can read through it the same way you could a book, but also so that you can jump around at will.

Origins

Technical

Subjects

Uses

Artists

Influence on the West