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Frog (Kaeru) and Gold Beetle (Koganemushi), from the album Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects)


画本虫撰 「蛙 宿屋飯盛 こかねむし 小簾管枝」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1788 (Tenmei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.3 x 32 cm (10 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession NumberRES.21.457
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #463.15
DescriptionVolume 2, picture 7.
Poems by Yadoya no Meshimori (for the frog) and Kosudare Sugaki (for the gold beetle).
The artist and publisher are identified on the final page of the album.
The complete, intact album: 2003.247.1-2, 2003.248.1-2, 2003.249.1-2, and 2008.167.1-2.
Signed (this page unsigned)
無款