Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 68460
Sparrow Shell
- Artist / 作者
- Suzuki Harunobu鈴木春信
- Date / 年代
- 1760
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 432 × 600 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
Shell Series: Sparrow Shell Artist: Harunobu Format: Small Oban tate-e: 11" x 8" Subject: The Sparrow Shell. 'Suzeme-Gai'. A young man dallies with his wife while their baby suckles on her bared breast. Provenance: oval red seal of the Theodore Scheiwe Collection on verso bottom left. A magnificent and lyrical Harunobu design. Date: Late 1760's Condition: Very good colors with very slight oxidation of the pink pigment. Some small and expert restorations. Very faint horizontal centrefold. Generally exeptional state of preservation. Impression: Fine impression with the Mosquito net printed in gauffrage.
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