drawing; shunga

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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 (historic)
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

Free entry