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Golden Pheasant and Bamboo in Snow, from a set of reproductions of rubbing prints (taku-hon, ishizuri-e)


花鳥版画(複製) 雪竹に錦鶏
After: Itô Jakuchû (Japanese, 1716–1800)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1897 (Meiji 30)?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 39.4 x 29 cm (15 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.49
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The original print: Kyoto Nat. Mus., Jakuchu! (2000), #146-1
DescriptionMFA impressions, all Meiji copies: 21.8210 (letterpress inscription in right margin), 47.49 (no inscription in margin), 63.1385 (margin cut off)

A pencil note on the old mat for 47.49 says that the set of 6 reproductions was published in 1897, but so far no other confirmation of that date has been found.
Signed (seals only)
Marks Artist's seals: Jakuchû, Meiwa kanotô (=1771)
画家の印:若冲、明和辛卯
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA.