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Mother and Child Flying a Kite through the Window

Mother and Child Flying a Kite through the Window

窓で凧を上げる親子

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Kokonotsugiri; 13.8 x 18.2 cm (5 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse

Accession Number53.2663

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Hokkei ga
北渓画

InscriptionsPoems

ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; 1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)