Couple beside a Well (Parody of the Well-curb Episode in Tales of Ise)

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Couple beside a Well (Parody of the Well-curb Episode in Tales of Ise)

井筒の男女　（見立筒井筒）

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

1766 (Meiwa 3)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.4 x 21.2 cm (11 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4980

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #111; Haft, Aesthetic Strategies (2013), fig. 78 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #192.2, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 98

DescriptionSecond state of a calendar print for 1766 (Meiwa 3), with the calender marks removed.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.