Posted by Peter Gallagher (213.84.198.104) on March 03, 2004 at 23:13:50:
Occasionally, I come across (Hiroshige) prints with differing artist's seals on different prints of the SAME IMAGE.
I can find no explanation for this anywhere and have scoured books and the Net with no mention of the phenomenon.
Different _publisher's_ seals "simply" suggest that the blocks changed hands and were reissued and can be thus "explained" - but I'm at a loss regarding differing artist's seals.
Here are two links which demonstrate exactly what I mean:
From Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=35793&item=3276599338
Reference:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~johnxyz/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/images/26_Nissaka.jpg
(same seal as this one is shown in "Images from the floating world"--Richard Lane - see page #234 of the 1982 Dorset Press edition).
Any help or opinion would be greatly appreciated!
best regards,
Peter