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Emil Orlik: Nihon-bashi, Tokyo

Nihon-bashi, Tokyo
colour lithograph, 1901
Plate/Image Size: 27 x 21 cm - (10¾ x 8¼ inches)
Sheet Size: 33.7 x 28.5 cm - (13¼ x 11¼ inches)
signed in the stone and with a blue Japanese printer's stamp

a brilliant impression of this very rare lithograph, a proof for the final state which was included in the portfolio Aus Japan; this proof has vignettes of Japanese characters in the lower margin whereas the published version did not have them
on creamish stiff wove paper with full margins
in excellent condition