Catalogue of a collection of Japanese colour prints, kakemonos, surimonos, original drawings, illustrated books, albums, & sketches : the property of the late Ernest Hart ... extending over a period of one thousand years of Japanese art
This is an 1898 London auction catalogue by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, listing the Japanese colour prints, kakemonos, drawings and illustrated books of the collector Ernest Hart, for sale to dealers and collectors. The four pictures show a woodblock-style landscape with a house on a hillside, a snow-covered pine slope beside a mountain path, a sketch of a mountain and lake with a figure on a bridge, and an ink sketch of a bird among bare branches. A designer might take from them the economy of ink line, the open negative space, and the sparse composition of Japanese landscape prints.
