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drawing
;
shunga
Object Type
drawing
shunga
Museum number
2006,0803,0.3
Description
Preparatory drawing (one of six) for erotic handscroll painting of famous kabuki actors in imagined scenes of lovemaking: Onoe Kikugoro III as workman making love to woman beside a bed-quilt. Ink on paper, with evidence of charcoal underdrawing.
Producer name
Painted by:
Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞 Toyokuni III)
School/style
Ukiyo-e School
Cultures/periods
Tenpo Era
Production date
1830s
Production place
Made in:
Edo
Materials
paper
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Height:
28.20 centimetres
Width:
64.50 centimetres
Curator's comments
See:-Uhlenbeck and Winkel, 2005, no.69
Bibliographic references
Clark et al 2013 / Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art
(p. 451)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
eroticism/sex
kabuki
actor/actress
Associated names
Representation of:
Onoe Kikugoro III 三代目尾上菊五郎
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Israel Goldman
Acquisition date
2006
Department
Asia
Registration number
2006,0803,0.3
Additional IDs
Asia painting number:
Jap.Ptg.Add.1280
(C)
Conservation
Treatment
: 09 Sep 2013
Treatment
: 19 Sep 2013