"Etchings Georges Bigot Japanese Sketch 1886"
29 original etching plates on Japanese paper, signed in the plate, gathered in a softcover notebook "à la Japonaise". Georges Bigot, draftsman and illustrator, (1860-1927), produced the "Japanese Sketches" during his stay in Japan, from 1882 to 1899, he captured rural Japan which was beginning to disappear in favor of a modernity imposed by the regime of the Meiji era. His overly realistic work displeased the regime in place which "invited" him to leave Japan in 1899.