deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Studie
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: south holland
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923

Studie. Pagina 42 uit een schetsboek met 43 bladen.
Coffeepot
Object type: coffeepot
Date: 1780 – 1790
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: ansbach pottery and porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1758 – 1860
Subjects: landscapes,ships
Design for a fan
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1800
Techniques: etching
Artist: anonymous, austrian, 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: austrian
Artist dates: 1700 – 1800
Subjects: fans,women,amusement parks

An unusual but rich source for information on gardens, this eighteenth-century fan is as delightful an object to view today as it must have been for its original owner. In a witty way, the fan displays the various entertainments offered in what looks like the prototype of an amusement park, possibly the Prater in Vienna, famous for such public entertainment. The activities one could choose from are shown in all their detail: here couples try shooting targets, there ladies swing high up in a flimsily constructed forerunner of the Ferris wheel, propelled by hand. Other visitors, all dressed in equally exaggerated outfits, walk around pointing at various delights or enjoy refreshments.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 470 – 460
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, at the left, part of an ivy leaf?; at the right, head and part of upper torso of youth with his himation draped over his head
Portret van Hendrik VI, keizer van het Heilige Roomse Rijk
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: nijmegen, fight between man and animal, historical persons, weapons, emperor
The Pelkus Gate near Utrecht
Object type: painting
Date: 1646 – 1646
Materials: oil, wood
Artist: jan van goyen
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1596 – 1656
Subjects: human figures,gates,towers,rivers,boats

About a dozen paintings by Van Goyen feature some form of the once familiar Pelkus gate (erected 1371), a freestanding tower on the tow-path of the river Vecht. The setting is always invented and the monument treated as a picturesque haven for birds.
Rekenpenning uit Brussel voor J. Heijmans tresorier van Brussel 1678
Object type: history medal
Date: 1678 – 1678
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking

Koperen penning, op de voorzijde een gehelmd wapenschild, op de keerzijde een engel die een duivel verslaat, met omschrift.
Servante et table
Object type: print
Date: 1895 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: furniture for storage, table

Ieder Livraison in de serie Le Garde-Meuble bevat negen platen: drie 'sièges' (zitmeubels), drie 'meubles' (diverse meubels zoals tafels en kasten) en drie 'tentures' (gordijnen en draperieën).
Ontwerp voor een doopbeker
Object type: design
Date: 1874 – 1932
Materials: pencil, paper
Techniques: pricking
Artist: mathieu lauweriks
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1932
Subjects: other utensils used in the church (baptismal cup)
Lion head mounted on a modern whetstone
Object type: sculpture
Date: 600 – 301
Materials: gold
Culture: achaemenid
Location: iran
Subjects: lions
Feestend gezelschap in een stad
Object type: print
Date: 1620 – 1660
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: dancing, public festivities, public road, periodic celebrations, popular feasts
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Figuren in een stad met een poort. In het midden danst een paar, vele figuren kloppen op deuren, een vrouw braakt in de straat.
Portrait of Frau von Oppen and Her Two Daughters
Object type: drawing
Date: 1835 – 1835
Materials: chalk, graphite
Artist: johann gottfried schadow
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1764 – 1850
Subjects: portraits,women
Horse and rider startled by a snake
Object type: statuette group
Date: 1501 – 1533
Materials: bronze
Subjects: men,horses,snakes

As his horse paws the air, a shouting rider raises his spear (now lost) to impale a snake. The statuette’s three figures were cast separately and later assembled to form the group. In a demonstration of virtuosic technique, the weight of the rider and horse balances effortlessly on the twin points of the horse’s rear hooves. The rare subject of this exquisite bronze derives from a precious classical cameo (a gem carved in relief).
Helmet Crest (Maidate)
Object type: helmet crest maidate
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: gold, lacquer, textile, wood
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Monument de Gambetta. Le monument élévé par souscription nationale, Place du Carrousel, a été inauguré en 1888
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1910
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: monument, statue, square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Sampler
Object type: textile
Date: 1651 – 1651
Materials: linen, silk
Techniques: embroidery, weave
Location: england
Artist: mary bidgood
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1650 – 1675
Subjects: alphabet
Inscriptions: Inscription: Mary Bidgood 1651
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
Object type: neck amphora fragment
Date: 520 – 510
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of a frieze of upright lotus buds; two lines; rays
The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in Shakkyo Dance in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1769
Object type: print
Date: 1769 – 1769
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block, woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: ippitsusai buncho
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1755 – 1790
Reproductie van een prent van twee kerkgangers door Israhel van Meckenem
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1867 – 1872
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Location: brussels
Artist: israhel van meckenem
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1440 – 1517
Subjects: adult woman, aids for prayer, e.g. rosary, going to church, adult man

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een omslag met 12 prenten op 12 bladen.
Stole
Object type: stole
Date: 1734 – 1766
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers,cross
Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 13 recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1597 – 1597
Techniques: etching
Artist: johann sibmacher
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1590 – 1611
Subjects: ornament

Designed by Johann Sibmacher, German, active 1590-1611, published by Caimox, Nürmberg. Illustrated title signed CM and Jo. Sibmacher, 7 pages of text surrounded by decorative borders, and 35 pages of designs for weaving, embroidery, and cut-linen.
Kop, beschilderd met een vrijend paartje
Object type: cup
Date: 1782 – 1784
Materials: porcelain
Location: loosdrecht

Cup and saucer. Porcelain. Loosdrecht, c. 1780 - 1784.
Pieces (2)
Object type: piece
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers,leaves
Inuentions pour faire des plaques ou des Aubenistiers seruans aux Orfeures
Object type: print
Date: 1659 – 1659
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france

In de vorm van een rond bassin, gedragen door een putto. Op de achterplaat giet een engel water op een gebergte. Uit eerste editie.
Marriage of the Virgin
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1640 – 1640
Materials: chalk, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, cutting, pen, wash
Location: france
Artist: jacques stella
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1596 – 1657
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right, in graphite: "6"
Apollo and the Nine Muses
Object type: print
Date: 1630 – 1635
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Subjects: one person playing wind instrument, transverse flute, euterpe (one of the muses); 'euterpe' (ripa)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, number: ‘12’

While there are numerous depictions of Apollo and the nine muses, these ones are exceptional. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of music and harmony and his sisters, the muses, are the goddesses of art and science and symbols of inspiration. Le Blond portrayed each of them separately, making music. Dressed and coiffed according to the latest Parisian fashion around 1630, they have thus become contemporary.
Portret van Lodewijk XIV, koning van Frankrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1652 – 1690
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: abraham bloteling
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1640 – 1690
Subjects: lodewijk xiv (koning van frankrijk), wig
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Lodewijk XIV, koning van Frankrijk, in een harnas met kanten kraag en een lange krulpruik. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift met de naam en de titels van de geportretteerde.
Pendant
Object type: pendant
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: glass, silver
Subjects: angels,christ,virgin mary,cross
Serie 2: Landschappen
Object type: print
Date: 1633 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: trees, forest, wood
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Twee grote bomen, rechts een weg, op de achtergrond bomen.
Catcher
Object type: statuette
Date: 1875 – 1876
Materials: porcelain
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: ott and brewer
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1871 – 1893
Subjects: men,baseball,athletes

This parian figure of a baseball player illustrates the exceptional skill and creativity of Isaac Broome, an important sculptor who designed wares for the Ott and Brewer firm in Trenton, New Jersey. Broome expertly depicted the catcher in action, capturing the moment he catches the ball. The details of the muscular limbs as well as the stitching on the uniform are also exceedingly well rendered. This model matches one of three figures that embellished the large "Baseball Vases" exhibited by Ott and Brewer at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. It is one of the artist’s most iconic works and arguably one of the most important pieces of nineteenth-century American porcelain.
Verlichte brug te Amsterdam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1923 – 1923
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the hague, wilhelmina of the netherlands, public festivities at other royal events, not meant or mentioned above (+ illumination, fire-works ~ festive activities), canal, bridge in city across river, canal, etc., amsterdam

Illuminatie op de gracht te Amsterdam bij 25-jarig regeringsjubileum van koningin Wilhelmina, 1923.
Ducalis et Episcopalis Residentia Wurzburgum seu Herbipolis in Franconia (...) / Hoch-Fürstlich und Bischöffliche Residenz-Stadt Würzburg in Francken (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1740 – 1740
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, garden, hospital
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Serie bestaande uit elf prenten plus een titelprent. Johann Andreas Pfeffel wordt op de titelprent aangeduid als prentmaker, maar zijn naam staat op de prenten niet vermeld.
Boetedoenende Maria Magdalena
Object type: print
Date: 1672 – 1757
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Subjects: the penitent st. mary magdalene (often before a cave, possibly at la sainte-baume hill): her long hair covers her (naked) body, she reads, meditates or raises her tear-filled eyes towards heaven
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Serie 9: Nederlandse en Duitse Gebeurtenissen, 1583-1587
Object type: print
Date: 1586 – 1588
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: cologne
Artist: frans hogenberg
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1538 – 1590
Subjects: rome, alessandro farnese (landvoogd van de nederlanden en hertog van parma en piacenza), siege, position war

Beleg van Neuss door het leger van Parma, 26 juli 1586. Legenda in cartouche. Episode uit de Keulse Oorlog. Met onderschrift van 10 regels in het Duits en 5 regels in het Latijn. Genummerd: 101.
Portret van Franciscus Gomarus
Object type: print
Date: 1654 – 1654
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: bruges
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portretbuste in ovaal naar rechts van Franciscus Gomarus, hoogleraar in de theologie te Groningen, met kalot. Op de ovale omlijsting staat een randschrift in Latijn, in de marge een zesregelig Latijns vers.
Bottle
Object type: bottle
Date: 701 – 800
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing
Location: syria

The shape and decoration of this bottle are drawn from the Roman traditions of glass blowing. The festooned pattern was created with an applied trail reworked with a pointed tool or a pincer. This type of decoration was used from about the fourth to the eighth century in the Syrian area.
Grazend paard
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1868 – 1887
Materials: pencil
Artist: jan willem van borselen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1825 – 1892
Subjects: horse
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven in potlood

Blad 35 verso uit een schetsboek met 51 bladen.
Hope
Object type: print
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: freeman gage delamotte
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1813 – 1862
Subjects: women,butterflies,flowers,leaves
Juro (God of Luck)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: men,deer
Lijkstoet van prinses Anna van Hannover te Delft
Object type: print
Date: 1759 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: the hague, anna van hannover, cortege, funeral procession, delft
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gardes Dragonders en gardes te paard, voorafgegaan door trompetters en trommelslagers. Aankomst bij de Haagse Poort te Delft. Onderdeel van een serie van 16 platen plus een gedrukte beschrijving van de lijkstatie van de op 23 februari 1759 te Delft begraven prinses Anna van Hannover. Ongenummerd.
The Nativity
Object type: print
Date: 1504 – 1504
Techniques: engraving
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Subjects: wells,men,women,virgin mary,jesus,nativity
The Tuileries Garden
Object type: print
Date: 1680 – 1680
Techniques: etching
Artist: adam perelle
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1640 – 1695
Subjects: gardens,crowd
Gezicht op Beachy Head nabij Eastbourne, East Sussex
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: east sussex
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: coastal cliff or crag
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘25325/ Beachy Head’, inscription: ‘Beachy Head/ 14/4 1900/ The day before Eastern/ near Eastbourne’
Fragment schoengesp uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: shoe buckle
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: silver
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Buckle, chape buckle, shoe buckle; fragment of ring, short side, plain, angular outline.
James Gordon, William Hanna D.D. and 'Mr. Cowan'
Object type: photograph
Date: 1843 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: scotland
Artist: david octavius hill
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: scottish
Artist dates: 1802 – 1870
Necklace spiral
Object type: necklace spiral
Date: 900 – 701
Materials: bronze
Culture: italic, villanovan
Broadsheet relating to a news story about a young mother who dismembered her newborn, a woman discovering the scene of the crime
Object type: print
Date: 1905 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress, lithography
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: women,death,documents
Apotheosis of Hercules (recto); Sketches of Horse's Head, Horse's Forequarters, and Altarpiece or Ciborium (verso)
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: gouache, graphite, ink, paper, paint, watercolor
Techniques: brush, heightening, pen, wash
Location: italy
Artist: anton domenico gabbiani
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1652 – 1726
Wensbrief met herbergscènes
Object type: wensbrief
Date: 1700 – 1899
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: calligraphy, etching, pen
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: dancing, drinking, hotel, hostelry, inn
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, inscription: ‘N: J: Briev / Aan / Mijn geagte vrind / Ik voele nü een soete drieft ...’

Wensbrief met beschreven cartouche binnen een decoratief kader met herbergtaferelen: drinkende en etende mensen aan tafel, dansende mensen en rechtsboven een paar muzikanten. Handgeschreven bericht in kalligrafie (Nieuwjaarsbrief) door Gerrit Visser aan zijn vriend.
The Commissioners
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Location: london
Artist: matthias darly
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1720 – 1780
Subjects: satire,american revolution,men,politics

This satire represents five British commissioners nominated to negotiate peace with the former American colonies. They kneel before an allegorical representation of America, who sits on barrels of tobacco and rice destined for Germany, France, Holland, and Spain. The commissioners are Lord Admiral Richard Howe, General Sir William Howe, Lord Frederick Carlisle, William Eden and Commodore (Governor) George Johnstone. The print was published before the commissioners had been approved and is inaccurate, since Richard Howe and William Howe both refused to serve under Carlisle's leadership.
Rijdende artilleristen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: the hague
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: division of armed forces (+ artillery)

Studie voor de aquarel 'Artillerie op brug' uit de collectie van Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag.
"Called to The Rescue (Life Boat Scene)"
Object type: textile
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: silk
Techniques: brocade, weave
Location: coventry
Artist: thomas stevens
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1828 – 1888
Inscriptions: Inscription: along bottom edge, in black ink  "WOVEN IN SILK BY THOMAS STEVENS, INVENTOR AND  MANUFACTUER, COVENTRY AND LONDON, (REGISTERED.)"
The Turkish Patrol
Object type: painting
Date: 1855 – 1856
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: alexandre-gabriel decamps
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1803 – 1860
Subjects: military,weapons,men,horses,orientalist
The second Austrian Shooting-match at Innsbruck, 1885
Object type: medal
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: silver
Artist: b. arnold busson
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1844 – 1892
Subjects: men,profiles
Portret van een zittende baby, aangeduid als Georges
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1891 – 1891
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: brussels
Artist: j. ganz
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1872 – 1954
Subjects: historical persons, infant, baby ~ the ages of man
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘MÉDAILLE D'OR/ EXPOSITION D'ANVERS/ 1885/ J. Ganz/ 65, Rue Royale,/ près de la Colonne du Congrès./ BRUXELLES./ (...)/ Les ateliers se trouvent au Rez-de-Chaussée./ Les Clichés sont conservés.’, annotation: ‘Petit Georges à/ 61/2 mois/ 8 Xbre 1891.’
Portret van Stephan Gerlach
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Christus en de twaalf apostelen
Object type: print
Date: 1520 – 1520
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Artist: hans sebald beham
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1500 – 1550
Subjects: the apostle peter, first bishop of rome; possible attributes: book, cock, (upturned) cross, (triple) crozier, fish, key, scroll, ship, tiara, the apostle paul of tarsus; possible attributes: book, scroll, sword
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Wang Pu (O ho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijushiko)"
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1850
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa kuniyoshi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1861
Armchair (part of a set)
Object type: armchair
Date: 1754 – 1756
Materials: wood, silk, wool
Techniques: carving, gilding, tapestry
Artist: nicolas-quinibert foliot
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1706 – 1776
Subjects: birds,rabbits
Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1778 – 1778
Materials: chalk, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: louis ducros
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1748 – 1810
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘No 239 Fils de notre Capitaine Erié’

Tekening uit het album 'Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte', 1778.
Approach to Segovia
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1903 – 1903
Materials: board, charcoal, paper
Location: united states
Artist: joseph pennell
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1857 – 1926
An Arabian Horse, plate 8 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: jean louis andré théodore géricault
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1791 – 1824
Laffitte Street
Object type: print
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: jean louis forain
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1852 – 1931
Fragment van een bord, in blauw beschilderd onder het glazuur met een cartouche met het monogram IG en het jaartal 1638
Object type: plate dish
Date: 1638 – 1638
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Fragment van een bord van aardewerk in blauw beschilderd onder het glazuur met een cartouche met het monogram IG en het jaartal 1638.
Inname van Tunis door don Juan van Oostenrijk
Object type: history medal
Date: 1572 – 1572
Materials: silver
Techniques: casting
Location: rome
Artist: giovanni v. melon
Artist role: medailleur
Subjects: don juan van oostenrijk

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: Neptunus valt met zijn drietand, die aan bovenzijde uitloopt in een gekroond wapenschild een overboord geslagen Turk aan; op achtergrond gezicht op stad Tunis en vluchtende Turkse soldaten binnen omschrift.
Furisode
Object type: textile
Materials: gold leaf, paper, textile, silk
Techniques: embroidery, damask, embroidered, lacquer, laid work, weave, stitching
Location: japan
Subjects: plants, trees, plum trees, flowers

This furisode, a long-sleeved garment worn by children and unmarried women on special occasions, belonged to a family whose crest was the tachibana, the flower of the Mandarin orange. Made of rinzu (a soft, lustrous silk), it probably was used as an uchikake (outer coat). The red fabric is woven in a pattern that combines geometric and floral forms. A blossoming plum tree embroidered with gold and white silk thread spreads its branches from hem to shoulder. The carefully embroidered blooming tree shows the influence of Western art on Japanese design. Needlework typical of this period was used to portray illusionistically the contours of the tree trunk. First the edges of the trunk were padded with a heavy thread; then, over this padding, gold-wrapped thread was couched with red silk thread.
Fifty-three Stations on the Tōkaidō Road, Fuchū (Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi) 東海道五十三次
Object type: illustrated book
Date: 1845 – 1845
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: polychrome, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai 葛飾北斎
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: women