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Women Looking through Telescopes


遠眼鏡を見る二美人
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1766–67 (Meiwa 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.7 x 21.7 cm (11 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4619
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #083; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #181; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #561, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 110
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
InscriptionsLine of Chinese poem (from Wakan rôeishû): Mayuzumi no iro wa haruka ni/ sôkai no ue ni nozomeri
ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.