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Chinese Woman Looking in a Box with Spiderwebs in it


唐美人 (複製)
After: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s copy of 1820s original

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.6 x 18.7 cm (8 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden
Accession Number52.1404
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #20; original diptych, second edition: vol. 1, #78
DescriptionGroup A copy of the right sheet of a diptych.
Signed Gakutei Sadaoka hitsu
岳亭定岡筆
Provenance1952, gift of Dr. George S. Amsden (b. 1870 - d. 1966), Acworth, NH, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1952)