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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1945,1101,0.36
Description
Woodblock print. Popular culture. The crow and the heron, couple walking in snow under an umbrella.
Producer name
Print artist:
Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信)
School/style
Ukiyo-e School
Cultures/periods
Meiwa Era
Production date
1767
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Japan
Materials
paper
Technique
woodblock
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Waterhouse 1964 / Harunobu and his age: The Development of Colour Printing in Japan
(33(b/w))
Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan Vol 2 / Hizo Ukiyo-e taikan
(19)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2014 Jan – Mar, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’ 2014 Mar – May, Nagoya City Museum, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’ 2014 May – July, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, ‘Ukiyo-e: Journey through the Floating World’
Subjects
bird
snow
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Oscar Charles Raphael
Acquisition date
1945
Department
Asia
Registration number
1945,1101,0.36
Conservation
Treatment
: 30 Nov 1995