Avant et après - seated Japanese woman fanning herself from 'The Sixth Month: Summer airing of clothes'

by-nc

Maker

(designer)
1786-1864
Yokogawa Takejiro (woodcutter)
Tsutaya Kichizo (publisher)
(collector)
1848-1903

Title

Avant et après - seated Japanese woman fanning herself from 'The Sixth Month: Summer airing of clothes'

Date of Production

1854

Medium

polychrome woodblock print laid down on album page

Dimensions

Height: 28.7 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Object Number

MS.2020.XX.1.back flyleaf verso

Mode of Acquisition

HM Government (Acceptance in Lieu), allocation, 2020

Credit

Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2020

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Inscription: Japanese characters printed in black on the woman's fan and two circular date seals in black ink at lower left, one cut off by trimming of the lower edge.

Provenance

See MS.2020.XX.1.

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