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No. 4 of 6 Sheets of Pictures by Itô Jakuchû (Itô Jakuchû shinhitsuga rokumai no uchi yon): White Cockatoo on Swinging Perch, from a set of reproductions of rubbing prints (taku-hon, ishizuri-e)


花鳥版画(複製) 白鸚鵡 「伊藤若冲真筆画六枚之四」
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; 27.8 x 31.6 cm (10 15/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.317
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The original print: Kyoto Nat. Mus., Jakuchu! (2000), #146-6
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.8213, 54.317 (both Meiji copies, with the same letterpress inscription in slightly different positions)
The original print: 54.316

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: Jokin, Jakuchû Koji
InscriptionsIn letterpress in right margin: No. 4 of 6 Sheets of Pictures by Itô Jakuchû (Itô Jakuchû shinhitsuga rokumai no uchi yon)
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)