Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 114919

Woman in European-style Dress with Cockatoo and Leopard

Artist / 作者: Utagawa Yoshimori歌川芳盛
Date / 年代: 1860
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
Digital record / 画像記録: 1402 × 2000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Victoria and Albert Museum
Published by / 公開者: 紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利: Commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Catalog note / 解説

Following the signing of trading treaties in the 1850s, a number of ports in Japan were opened up for overseas trade. Previously limited to the Dutch in Nagasaki, the conspicuous presence of Europeans and Americans in Japan was picked up in commercially published prints. This woodblock print juxtaposes a woman in European-style dress (possibly Dutch) with two imported creatures, a leopard and a cockatoo. The display of exotic animals was a popular spectacle around this time, but imported prints and picture books were also used as source material by artists. Materials: Colour woodblock print on paper

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