1840 (ca.), Utagawa Hiroshige, Crane, tit, oriole -- British Museum (London)
From the museum label:
To make a woodblock print the artist first produced a finely detailed hanshita-e (block-ready drawing). This was pasted onto the woodblock and destroyed during the cutting process.
Hiroshige made this drawing, probably a hanshita-e, for three prints to be cut into a single block. It survives because the prints were not produced. With it are two uncut prints, perhaps a publisher's sample or remaindered stock.
1840 (ca.), Utagawa Hiroshige, Crane, tit, oriole -- British Museum (London)
From the museum label:
To make a woodblock print the artist first produced a finely detailed hanshita-e (block-ready drawing). This was pasted onto the woodblock and destroyed during the cutting process.
Hiroshige made this drawing, probably a hanshita-e, for three prints to be cut into a single block. It survives because the prints were not produced. With it are two uncut prints, perhaps a publisher's sample or remaindered stock.