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Itchô gafu (An Album of Pictures by Itchô)


Title page: (Giga bassui) Itcho gafu
英一蝶画譜
After: Hanabusa Itchô (Japanese, 1652–1724)
Suzuki Rinshô (Japanese, 1732–1803)
Author of preface: Fukuda Eisai (Japanese, born in 1840)
Author of postface: Suzuki Rinshô (Japanese, 1732–1803)
Publisher: Kariganeya Gisuke (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
Preface and colophon: 1770

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book
Dimensions Overall: 27 x 18.7 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.778.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Ehon (2006), #18
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)