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芳年略画 「応挙之幽霊」
The Painter Ôkyo and the Ghost (Ôkyo no yûrei), from an untitled series known as Sketches by Yoshitoshi (Yoshitoshi ryakuga)
芳年略画 「応挙之幽霊」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Japanese
Meiji era
early 1880s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal chûban; 18.2 × 24.7 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1367
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #42.5 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 2011.884.19, 2016.1367
Originally printed as a vertical ôban sheet with two horizontal chûban designs, both anecdotes about artists: 2011.884.2 (bottom) and 2011.884.19, 2016.1367 (top)
Originally printed as a vertical ôban sheet with two horizontal chûban designs, both anecdotes about artists: 2011.884.2 (bottom) and 2011.884.19, 2016.1367 (top)
Signed
Yoshitoshi giga
芳年戯画
芳年戯画
Marks
Artist's seal: Yoshitoshi
ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)