Courtesan with a Child Playing Piggyback, from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven-year-old Girls of the Present Day (Kindai nanasai jo shika) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Courtesan with a Child Playing Piggyback, from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven-year-old Girls of the Present Day (Kindai nanasai jo shika)

Courtesan with a Child Playing Piggyback, from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven-year-old Girls of the Present Day (Kindai nanasai jo shika)

「近代七才女詩歌」　肩車

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

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

Dimensions Vertical nagaban; 53.2 x 23 cm (20 15/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6346

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #674.5; the series: Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 226.1.1-4 (this design not illustrated)

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1914 given by Frank Lloyd Wright to William S. and John T. Spaulding as an extra; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.