painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.205.1
- Description
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Painting, album leaf. One of surviving pair from lost set of thirty-six poets? Court lady-in waiting (Ise?) seated. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.40 centimetres
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Width: 27.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Pair with 1881,1210,0.205.b.
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'Painted by two different artists; the better one by Tosa Mitsu-nari, the inferior one by Tosa Mitsu-suke, son of the former.' (unattributed annotation 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
- 1881,1210,0.205.1
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.115 (Japanese Painting Number)
