Bunting (Gabichô) and Cherry Blossoms, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)

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Bunting (Gabichô) and Cherry Blossoms, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)

海舶来禽図彙　「画眉鳥」

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; 25.7 x 38.5 cm (10 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5789

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #27 (first edition?) and #28 (this edition); Keyes, The Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat.), vol. 2 (1985), p. 432, #8 (first edition); Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #121 (this edition)

DescriptionLater 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

ProvenanceJune 23, 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at Sotheby's; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.