Lobster Yellow Kimbei Shot during the Meiji era

Shot during the Meiji era

and period colour are reproduced with full sharpness and clarity

unexpected juxtapositions

building a dense visual rhythm that rewards sustained attention and reads equally well at distance or close inspection

even where the imagery is most ambiguous

Lobster Yellow Kimbei Shot during the Meiji eraLobster Yellow is a striking vintage natural history illustration rendered in a bold, high contrast style. The subject a lobster depicted in a warm, saturated yellow against a plain ground sits between scientific plate and graphic statement. The composition is clean and frontal, presenting the animal with the unselfconscious directness of nineteenth century zoological illustration. Segmented forms, delicate antennae, and articulated limbs are drawn