Ōi: Travellers in the Snow
c. 1835 · Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)
- Year
- c. 1835
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
- Original size
- 23.5 × 36.8 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (impression JP33; many other impressions exist)
- Movement
- Ukiyo-e
- Series
- Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō
Snow falls thickly over a mountain road, and a small group of travellers walks away from us between snow-covered hills, their round hats and straw capes heaped white. One rides a dark red horse, a figure in red and yellow walks beside it, and another follows behind. At each side a pine with a red-streaked trunk bends under clumps of snow against a dark grey sky full of flakes. This is print forty-seven of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, published by Hōeidō and later Kinjudō, c. 1835. Keisai Eisen began the series and Utagawa Hiroshige, who designed this sheet, completed it. Ōi was the forty-sixth station on the Nakasendō, the inland road from Edo to Kyoto; the English title is descriptive, and impressions vary in colour and condition.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Snow white and storm grey with a dark red horse and touches of green, for a living room, bedroom or study at 16×24 in black. It pairs with Hiroshige's Kanbara: Night Snow for two of his winter scenes on the road.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ukiyo-e painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1835)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cornflower blue, cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, travelers, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
