handscroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1736
- Description
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Painting, handscroll. Pictures of popular deities, animals, birds and flowers. Ink and light colour on paper. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- '1719 to 1746. Kano School.'
'1736. Copies of well known drawings of Itcho, poorly executed. Signature & seal forged.' (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.1736
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.670 (Japanese Painting Number)