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Ehon haya manabi, sanpen (Picture Book for Learning to Draw Quickly, Part Three)


畫本早真名美三編
Uragami Kôsa (Japanese)
Author: Uragami Kôsa (Japanese)
Publisher: Sakaiya Sadashichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847 (preface) 1848 (colophon)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 18 x 12.4 cm (7 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.); kohon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.901
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 499
Signed artist signature: "Naniwa Uragami Kôsa ga"
浪華浦川公左畫図
InscriptionsKôsa
公左
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; 1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2019)