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Toba-e Cartoon: Courtesan at Her Desk, with Kamuro


渓斎鳥羽絵本 文を持つ遊女と禿
Attributed to: Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1810s–1840s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 14.8 x 20 cm (5 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Image: 11 x 16.8 cm (4 5/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number1997.641
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a dismantled album of comic pictures entitled Keisai toba ehon (An Album of Comic Pictures by Keisai Eisen), 1997.617 to 1997.649. Each sheet pasted onto paper, tucked into an album with brown silk covers and handwritten titleslip.
Additional pages, previously removed and re-numbered: RES.11.5754 to .5759 .
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.