Illustrated catalogue of a collection of Chinese paintings, Japanese paintings, and colour prints
A 1910 illustrated catalogue published by the City Art Gallery in Manchester, England, documenting a collection of Chinese paintings, Japanese paintings and colour prints, probably for collectors and art students. The four plates reproduce Japanese woodblock prints and paintings with captions giving artist names and dates, with figures, boats, fish and plants drawn in fine black line and flat tone. A designer might take the compact, captioned plate layouts and the stylised linework of crowds, rowing figures and still-life subjects.
