painting;
screen
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1573
- Description
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Painting, six-panel folding screen. Landscape with peasants in houses, engaged in sericulture. Ink and light colours on paper. Sealed.
- Production date
- 1800-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 182 centimetres (screen)
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Height: 164.20 centimetres
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Width: 366 centimetres (screen)
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Width: 349 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- '1573. Genuine & very fine.'
'Two seals, Boku-shin-sai-shi and Fujiwara no Yasúnobu' (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
- 1881,1210,0.1573
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.603 (Japanese Painting Number)
