Today is the first of December, meaning it’s day one of our #AshmoleanAdvent🎄🎁🔔
On each of the days until Christmas, we’ll be sharing a fascinating and festive object from our collections for you to ‘open up’ and discover. A new object will be revealed every morning here.
Day 1Yūhi Hill and Drum Bridge at Meguro by Utagawa Hiroshige Our first advent calendar treat is this woodblock print of a snowy bridge by Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige. Here, Hiroshige has skilfully depicted the chilly silence of a snowy afternoon. The snow and snowflakes in the image are depicted by leaving unprinted spots on the paper that stand out against the dark blues of the river and sky; a technique used in traditional Chinese and Japanese ink painting.
Check back tomorrow to see our second advent object.
Captain Neverever 