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Dressing Room of the Top Female-role Actor (Tate onnagata heya): Actors Sawamura Tanosuke III (seated) and Nakamura Ichô, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)


「俳優楽屋の姿見 立女形部屋」 「沢村田之助」(三代目)、「中村いてう」
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshūya Hikobei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.759
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #135C; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-43
Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche
国貞画(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 11 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Sei
改印:亥十一改
彫師:彫清
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)