drawing
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.131-140
- Description
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Set of ten drawings, unmounted. The Buddhist Hell. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 99 centimetres
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Width: 47.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 'Nos 131 & 140 are by Asami Tō-etsu, 132, 137 & 139 by Uyé-mura Yu-jiro, 133-136 & 138 by Yoshi-kagé. Copied from Chinese pictures by Riku shin chiu.'
'Kwansei (not Kwanyei.)
'上村勇治郎 Uyemura Yujirō
美景 Yoshikage after 坴信忠 Lu Hsin-chung 13th cent.
清見 洞悦 Asami Tōyetsu'
(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
- 1881,1210,0.131-140
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3497-3506 (Japanese Painting Number)
