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Woman and Young Actor, from an untitled erotic series with courtesan crests


家紋の春画シリーズ 少年俳優(色子?)と女
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Publisher: Takeda Chôemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1700s–1710s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions 19.6 × 28.6 cm (7 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.316.7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionEleven woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, RES.09.316.1-11.

For another version of this design, possibly a pirate edition, see RES.09.315.1.
Signed (Yamato eshi Torii Kiyonobu, on the final sheet in the series)
(大和絵師鳥居清信)
Marks (Publisher's mark on final sheet only)
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)