painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.2256
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Bird's eye view of Uji. Ink and light colours on silk. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1780-1850
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 37.27 centimetres
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Width: 88 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 64.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- '2256. Signature & seal are spurious. This picture is not at all in the style of Okio, & seems to be the work of an amateur.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.2256
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.2402.e (Japanese Painting Number)
