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海舶来禽図彙 「白頭翁」
DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019
Gray Starling (Hakutô-ô) in Loquat Tree, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)
海舶来禽図彙 「白頭翁」
Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai) (Japanese, 1764–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
1790s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 23 x 36.8 cm (9 1/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1160
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #26 (first edition?) and #230 (this edition); Keyes, The Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat.), vol. 2 (1985), p. 433, #13 (first edition)
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1160 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.5787
From a later edition, with added signatures and seals, of designs from an album first published in 1789 and reprinted in 1793.
The intact book: 53.453
From a later edition, with added signatures and seals, of designs from an album first published in 1789 and reprinted in 1793.
The intact book: 53.453
Signed
Keisai sha
Marks
Artist's seal: Kitao Masayoshi
Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)