diptych print
- Museum number
- 1909,0618,0.83
- Description
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Colour woodblock print, right and central sheets of triptych. Women drying clothes on the rooftop balcony of house in Edo; with Mount Fuji in distance. Signed, sealed and marked.
- Production date
- 1785-1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.20 centimetres (each)
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Width: 24.20 centimetres (each)
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- Curator's comments
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See Asano & Clark, 1995: 52 for an impression with all three sheets (held in The Art Institute of Chicago).
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Smith 1988
The missing left-hand sheet showed an interior. Women are drying clothes on an Edo (Tokyo) rooftop, looking south-west to the distant Mount Fuji. The cuckoo indicates it is early summer. The print is signed 'Painted by Utamaro'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 Jun – Oct, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from prehistory to the present’
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1909,0618,0.83