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[Tôji san bijin] = [Three beauties of the present day]

Image ID: 416424

[Tôji san bijin] = [Three beauties of the present day] (ca. 1793)

Image Title

:  [Tôji san bijin] = [Three beauties of the present day]

Creator

: Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 -- Artist

Additional Name(s)

: Brinkley, F. (Frank), 1841-1912 -- Former owner

Created Date

: ca. 1793

Medium

: color woodcut with white mica ground

Specific Material Type

: Prints

Item Physical Description

: 1 print ; 38.6 x 25.6 cm. (ôban)

Item/Page/Plate

: BM104

Notes

: Holdings checked in departmental copy of Shugo Asano and Timothy Clark, The Passionate art of Kitagawa Utamaro. Note 2.) Print bears censorship seal "kiwame".

Provenance

: Frank Brinkley.

Source

: Japanese Color Woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro / Single and multi-part prints.

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Catalog Call Number

: MEXG

Digital ID

: 416424

Record ID

: 179923

Digital Item Published

: 8-25-2004; updated 7-11-2008

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