Peach-Blossom

Mortimer Menpes

1901

Watercolour

Source: Japan, A Record in Colour, facing p. 80

Menpes greatly admired the Japanese aesthetic sensibility: "They will gaze for whole hours in rapture at a little branch of peach-blossom, only a cluster, just a few inches of rose-red peach-blossom, with a slim grey twig, placing itself against a background of hills that stretch away in the distance indefinitely" (88). — Jacqueline Banerjee

You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the University of California and the Internet Archive and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

Bibliography

Menpes, Dorothy. Japan: A Record in Colour. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California Libraries. Web. 25 June 2019.

---

Victorian
Web

Artists

Cult of
Japan

Mortimer
Menpes

Next

Created 26 June 2019