Chiryū: Early Summer Horse Fair
1833–34 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Cleveland Museum of Art
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- 1833–34
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 22.6 × 35 cm
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art (impression 1985.239; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Dozens of horses graze and stand tethered to stakes across a wide green meadow divided by streams, while their handlers move among them. In the middle distance a crowd of dealers gathers by a tall, lone tree, and the plain runs out to a pale blue horizon under a pink sky. The print is number forty in the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, published by Hōeidō (Takenouchi Magohachi) in 1833–34. Chiryū, the thirty-ninth station, held a horse market each early summer, when horses were brought to the town to be traded. Hiroshige lays the meadow in graded greens and blues, with the horses in grey, black and white; impressions vary in colour and condition.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Fresh greens and blues with dozens of grey, black and white horses, for a living room, study or home office at 36×24 in natural wood. It pairs with Fujieda: Changing Porters and Horses for two scenes of the horses that kept the road moving.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (1833–34)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Palette
- cornflower blue
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, home office, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
