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Mother Nursing Child before Mirror


鏡の前に母と子
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1797 (Kansei 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Captain John C. Phillips
Accession Number18.309
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #270; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #461; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 97.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #506; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #270
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Provenance1918, gift of Captain John C. Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 1918)