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Four People on a Beach


浜辺の四人 (複製)
After: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s copy of 1820s design

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.5 x 17.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession NumberRES.53.131
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #43; the original: Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 197 (with three poems)
DescriptionGroup C copy of original from series A Collection of Shells in Thirteen Prints (Kaizukushi, jûsanban no uchi).
Signed Hokkei
北渓
InscriptionsPoem by Asahi Sashiyasu
Provenance1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)