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Suijin Shrine and Massaki on Sumida River from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Artist / Origin: Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Region: East Asia
Date: Edo Period, 1856
Period: 1800 CE – 1900 CE
Material: Woodblock print
Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography
Dimensions: H: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm.), W: 9 in. (22.8 cm)
Location: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Credit: © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK/Bridgeman Art Library
Falls of the Yosemite
Artist / Origin: Eadweard Muybridge (British, emigrated to the US, 1830–1904)
Region: North America
Date: 1872–1873
Period: 1800 CE – 1900 CE
Material: Albumen print
Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography
Dimensions: H: 21 ¼(54 cm.), W: 16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.)
Location: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Credit: Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Harrison A. Augur
Landscapes can offer vicarious travel through the physical world, transport us through association to our individual and collective pasts, or entice us to go places. At the same time, they are able to record our experience of a landscape at a certain moment, thereby allowing us to revisit that place and time at some point in the future. Landscapes like Hiroshige’s Suijin Shrine or Muybridge’s Falls of Yosemite, thus, become repositories of memory.