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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1895
People
Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Japanese (1780-1850)
Title
Cat and Toy Butterfly, from the series A Series of Thirty-Six Creatures (Sanjūrokkin tsuzuki)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: （七宝連） 三十六禽続
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
circa 1825
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207663

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
shikishiban: H. 21.9 cm x W. 18.6 cm (8 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Hokkei
  • signature: printed, lower right: 北渓 [Hokkei]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1895
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 167

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