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Courtesan Riding a Carp and Reading a Letter; Parody of the Immortal Qin Gao (Kinkô sennin)


見立琴高仙人
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 66 x 12.4 cm (26 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.969
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #559; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #814, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 435; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #238
DescriptionA similar design is depicted within Kiyotsune's "In Memory of Harunobu," 11.20128.
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross