The British Museum says it has purchased 103 rediscovered drawings by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai and they are available to see online.
The museum said on Thursday that the drawings resurfaced in Paris last year after they had been forgotten for decades.
They were previously owned by French collector and jeweler Henri Vever. They were put up for auction in 1948 and are believed to have been in a French private collection since then.
The Museum says the drawings were created in 1829 as illustrations for an unpublished book called "Great Picture Book of Everything."
It was widely believed that Hokusai was not active at that time due to his wife's death and also because he had suffered a minor stroke.
It was about two years before he began publishing the famous print series, "Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji."
The museum says that he was "in fact entering a new burst of creativity."
The drawings are planned to be on display as part of a future exhibition.
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