painting;
screen
- Museum number
- 2006,0424,0.1
- Title
- Object: Tigers Crossing a River
- Description
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Painting, six-panel folding screen. Mother tiger carrying three cubs across a river. Ink, colour and gold-leaf on paper. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1781-1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 153.50 centimetres
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Width: 352.80 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Reproduced in 'Nihon bijutsu gaho', vol 2, no. 5 (Oct. 1895). Apparently, originally had a companion screen of a male tiger, painted by Kano Tansaku.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 Oct 13-2007 Feb 11, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2008 Oct-2009 Feb 15, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2019 October - 2020 April, BM Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2006,0424,0.1
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.1277 (Japanese Painting Additional Number)
