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A Fashionable Packhorse Driver (Fûryû ukare umakata)


「風流うかれ馬かた」
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Izumiya Gonshirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1720s (mid Kyôhô era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.2 x 15.6 cm (12 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6229
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 4, Victoria and Albert Museum I (1989), pl. 45
Signed Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工 奥村利信筆
Marks Artist's seal: (unread; possibly Mitsuoki)
ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.