Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 to 1858), 1857
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 334 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A cloudburst catches a handful of travellers halfway across a wooden bridge; they hunch under mats and umbrellas while a raftsman drifts below and the far bank dissolves into grey. The rain is the marvel — cut into the woodblock as hard diagonal lines, two showers crossing at slightly different angles, something no Western painter of the day would have dared. Hiroshige made it in 1857, near the end of his life. Van Gogh admired it enough to copy it in oils, and through him this rain fell straight into modern European painting. Weather as pure graphic invention.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 to 1858)
- Date
- 1857
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00613
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 669 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 12 x 18 in | 446 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 16 x 24 in | 334 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 20 x 30 in | 267 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| 24 x 36 in | 223 | Excellent | Trimmed 1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 5,357 x 8,117 px, srgb, c2
- Tone
- Darks 22, lights 225 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 48.48
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