hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1269
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Pied wagtails and bamboo. Ink on paper. Sealed.
- Production date
- 16thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 111 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 32 centimetres
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Width: 69 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 51 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The use of the space does not match with the period of Naonobu. If really by Naonobu, he would not have left the large area unpainted. However, a fragment of a painting was possibly remade into a full hanging scroll work. (Kawai, 8/2008)
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'1269. Painted in modified Sesshiu style.'
'seal Naonobu 直信' (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
- 1881,1210,0.1269
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.492 (Japanese Painting Number)