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Woman Reading a Letter While Riding a Crane; Parody of Fei Zhangfang


鶴に乗る遊女 (見立費長房)
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1766–67 (Meiwa 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.9 x 20.1 cm (10 9/16 x 7 15/16 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 NumberRES.54.69
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #184; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #389, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 247
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)