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初期の教材 「英国（いぎりす）の瓦徳（うあっと）は蒸気機器を造 出さんとて土瓶の口より出る湯気 の水に成たるを匕にて一滴つゝ計り 居たりしを叔母其無益の事に時 を費すを嘖りしか遂に機関を発明し数多の功をあらはせり」
James Watt (1736–1819), the Inventor of the Steam Engine, from an untitled educational series of Lives of Great People of the West
初期の教材 「英国（いぎりす）の瓦徳（うあっと）は蒸気機器を造 出さんとて土瓶の口より出る湯気 の水に成たるを匕にて一滴つゝ計り 居たりしを叔母其無益の事に時 を費すを嘖りしか遂に機関を発明し数多の功をあらはせり」
Japanese
Meiji era
about 1873 (Meiji 6)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 25.5 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession Number2000.306
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #188; Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 6 (1977), p. 130
DescriptionDate according to Konishi 1977.
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無款
無款
ProvenanceBetween 1985-1999, purchased by Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf from Japanese Gallery, 66D Kensington Church St. and 23 Camden Passage, London; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the MFA. (Accession date: January 26, 2000)