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海舶来禽図彙 「白頭翁」
DEACCESSIONED June 20, 2019
Gray Starling (Hakutō-ō) in Loquat Tree, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated Catalogue of Birds 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 ōban; 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, MA to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)