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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1449
People
Yanagawa Shigenobu II, Japanese (fl. c. 1820)
Title
Sometsukige, from the series Colors Representing Famous Horses
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, surimono
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208111

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Ni-dai Shigenobu"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 20.8 cm x W. 17.8 cm (8 3/16 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Ni-dai Shigenobu

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
1933.4.1449
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. 355

Verification Level

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