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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.8
Title
A Compendium of Seals on Japanese and Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings (Wakan shoga inshū)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Wakan shoga inshū
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album
Date
late 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Meiji era, 1868-1912
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/202212

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Double-sided accordion-fold album; red and black ink on paper
Dimensions
Full album, pages fully extended: H. 32 x W. 938.9 cm (12 5/8 x 369 5/8 in.)
Album closed: H. 32 x W. 22.9 x D. 3.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 x 1 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ex-collections: Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908); Ernest Goodrich Stillman (1884-1949; Harvard Class of 1908)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1908
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.8
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hisayo Hiraoka, Kosumoporitan no gaikanroku: Fenorosa to futari no tsuma, Miyaobi Shuppansha (Kyoto, 2015), p. 174, no. 15

Verification Level

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