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Can anyone assist me with identifying the following pieces? Any information on artist, date, quality, etc... would be very much appreciated!! Please let me know if I can provide any additional infomration that may help. Many thanks!

Emily,

These are later reproductions of prints by Ando Hiroshige. They are 2 of the stations from the Hoeido Edition of the "53 Stations of the Tokaido Road" originally printed in the 1830s. You have the following stations, 17 Yui, and 21 Mariko.

The whole series can be found at the link below. note the soft colors of the oringinal vegetable dyes vice the garish colors of your repros. If you click on the small prints you can see a large version.

Cheers,
Stan

URL Title :Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido

Stan,

Thank you so much!! Any idea on the reproduction process? Litho..? Or is a new block carved?

Best Regards,
Emily

Hard to tell from here. If you examine the colored areas with a magnifying glass and they are composed of small dots then it is a mechanical repro process. They could be printed from blocks. Look at the back of the print. If there is significant bleed-through of the inks then they were likely produced from blocks and the paper is about right.

The reds used make me think a Meiji era or later printing.

Cheers,
Stan

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