painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.2517
- Description
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Sketch. Bird of blackbird family. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 inches
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Width: 17.50 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For a discussion of this group of sketches, see 加藤弘子、「鳩小禽等図」(東京国立博物館所蔵)の在外作品についてー「鳥類写生図」(大英博物館所蔵)を中心に、MUSEUM, no. 619 (Apr 2009), pp. 29-50.
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'2493 to 2522 Kano school.'
'Painted by two or three unknown artists of the Kano school.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.2517
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1140 (Japanese Painting Number)