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Description: | The Fitzwilliam Museum started collecting Japanese woodcuts in 1896 and has by now acquired a noteable Japanese print collection.
The character of the collection was shaped by the tastes of Western private collectors, notably through the donations of T. H. Riches (who also donated Blakes) in 1913, the Oscar Raphael Bequest of 1946, and the H. S. Reitlinger Bequest received in 1991. The strengths of these collections were fine impressions of landscapes by Hokusai and Hiroshige, and late eighteenth-century figure prints of Utamaro and his immediate predecessors and contemporaries.
The collection was further enriched by a number of purchases made by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam, most spectacularly the unique surviving set of UtamaroÃ's Chushingura set from the collection of Edmond de Goncourt. Recent purchases have strengthened the collection of later prints from the end of the Edo and the Meiji periods, including the remarkable collections of KunisadaÃ's kabuki actor portraits and prints by Yoshitoshi acquired with the help of the National Art Collections Fund. | Subjects: | Japanese Prints | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8364 | Go to resource |
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