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The Large Peepshow (Ô-karakuri), from the series Fashionable Comparisons of Precious Children (Fûryû kodakara awase)


「風流子寶合 大からくり」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.2 cm (14 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number53.23
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Ukiyo-e ni egakareta kodomotachi (2014), #10; Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #417; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #259.4, pl. 206; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 151.3.1 (different title); Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #724
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceJanuary 8, 1953 gift to the Museum by W.G. Russell Allen