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<p>[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4512446, member: 16283"]They did indeed.There is a great Video on Hokausai's 'The Great Wave',where the Curator of (Smithsonian,Art Institute Chicago,The Met ?), compares her museums print to 5-10 other museums.Original 1st state blocks were repaired,reworked,etc.The piece may have been in continuous production (as orig woodblock prints) for decades,and I think many originals were simply tacked to walls.Kind of like buying a pamphlet or broadside for a few pennies of 'Hamlet' as you were leaving the Globe Theater in the early 1600's.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4512446, member: 16283"]They did indeed.There is a great Video on Hokausai's 'The Great Wave',where the Curator of (Smithsonian,Art Institute Chicago,The Met ?), compares her museums print to 5-10 other museums.Original 1st state blocks were repaired,reworked,etc.The piece may have been in continuous production (as orig woodblock prints) for decades,and I think many originals were simply tacked to walls.Kind of like buying a pamphlet or broadside for a few pennies of 'Hamlet' as you were leaving the Globe Theater in the early 1600's.[/QUOTE]
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