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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4278128, member: 110350&quot;]Some more maps and prints I have up on my walls.&nbsp; (Unfortunately, I&#039;m out of room -- I have plenty more I can&#039;t hang up!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some prints of Rome that I bought when I was there with my son in 2008, dating from the 18th century if I recall correctly:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088849[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088850[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Maps of India and Japan, both from 1601:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088851[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Maps of the Ottoman Empire and &quot;Tartary&quot; (with what&#039;s now Alaska in the right-hand corner), from around the same time:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088852[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A map/city view of Freiburg in Baden, from 1549:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088853[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada from 1838, depicting Kyoto station (from one of his series on the 53 stations of the Tokkaido Road)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Japanese woodblock print by Hiroshige from 1832-1834, depicting Cherry Blossom Viewing at Asaka Hill, from the series Famous Places in Edo, a/k/a Famous Places in the Bay Capital:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088909[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada of the actor Nakamura Utaemon IV, dating from the 1830s-1840s, signed Gototi Kunisada ga (the signature he used until 1844):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088862[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another Japanese woodblock print by Kunisada, from 1854, entitled Autumn Stroll by the seller, but (according to my research), actually entitled Red Bridge Autumn, depicting the Tsutenbashi Bridge at Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088868[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another woodblock print by Hiroshige, from 1848, of Fuchu Station, No. 20 from the series 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088875[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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