Sketches after Hokusai | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2021.215
Title: Sketches after Hokusai
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 19th century
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Culture: Japanese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/370394

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 27.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Arthur and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, MA (by 2020), bequest; to the Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year: 2021
Object Number: 2021.215
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: This modestly-sized ink drawing informally jumbles together several groups of figures and animals in the style of Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760–1849). The drawings themselves seem likely to have been copied from illustrations in printed books, and then have been jumbled together on the same page in a manner reminiscent (though less organized) of the multiple sketches printed on a page in Hokusai’s famous “Manga” series.

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