Woman Holding a Fishing Pole and Riding a Carp; Parody of the Immortal Qin Gao (Kinkô sennin)

見立琴高仙人

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1769–70 (Meiwa 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Hashira-e; 67.7 x 12.1 cm (26 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.970

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #568; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #745, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 438

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross