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ネーデルランドの独立 （四つのメダイオン）
Four Medallions Commemorating the Independence of the Netherlands
ネーデルランドの独立 （四つのメダイオン）
After: Aôdô Denzen (Japanese, 1748–1822)
Japanese
Meiji-era reproduction (or reprint?) of Edo-period print
1877 (Meiji 10), October; original late 18th C.
Medium/Technique
Copperplate etching; ink on paper
Dimensions
38.3 x 29.6 cm (15 1/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberRES.96.8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Sakamoto, "Iconographic Source of Four Etchings by Aodo Densen," Bijutsushi ronkô (Kobe Review of Art History) 16 (2016)
DescriptionDated 1877 on a slip of paper, with explanatory text, affixed to the back of the print.
Possibly a reprint from the original plate, but more likely a reproduction.
Written by hand along the lower edge: "Some of the first copper plates done in Japan about 1800 or a few years earlier, by Zenkichi. Given to me by Prof. Edw. S. Morse, Salem, Jan. 10, 1886, who had it from Ninagawa Noritani, a Jp. artist."
Possibly a reprint from the original plate, but more likely a reproduction.
Written by hand along the lower edge: "Some of the first copper plates done in Japan about 1800 or a few years earlier, by Zenkichi. Given to me by Prof. Edw. S. Morse, Salem, Jan. 10, 1886, who had it from Ninagawa Noritani, a Jp. artist."
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
Marks
Collector's seal (or publisher's mark?) in lower left margin