Vale of Kashmir
Robert S. Duncanson (American
Painting · oil on canvas
Vale of Kashmir, 1867. Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872). Oil on canvas; framed: 94.9 x 154.6 x 12.1 cm (37 3/8 x 60 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 73 x 132.4 cm (28 3/4 x 52 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund, 2014.12
Descent of Vale of Kashmir
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.