hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.2274
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Ducks under snow-covered pine trunk. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 1830-1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 188 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 102.40 centimetres
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Width: 51.10 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 35.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'Seal, Kei-shi.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 Dec 23-2010 Feb 14, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to present'
2012 Oct -2013 Apr, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to present'
2018 Oct-2019 Apr, BM Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries
- 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
- 1881,1210,0.2274
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.2422 (Japanese Painting Number)
