A View of Mount Fuji and Travellers by a Bridge (ca. 1835): Art, History and Details
A View of Mount Fuji and Travellers by a Bridge at the Cleveland Museum of Art: ca. 1835, color woodblock print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A View of Mount Fuji and Travellers by a Bridge (ca. 1835) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Here, Mount Fuji is seen across the fields known as Nakahara, just off the T kaid Road (the principal route along the eastern coast between Edo and Kyoto). In the foreground is the thatched roof of a shrine and a stone statue on the bank of the stream.
Object facts
- Title: A View of Mount Fuji and Travellers by a Bridge
- Date: ca. 1835
- Creator attribution: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Print
- Technique: color woodblock print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 25.1 x 37.8 cm (9 7/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1940.997
Collection credit
Bequest of James Parmelee
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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