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Yellow Warbler and Peony, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)


海舶来禽図彙 「黄?」
Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai) (Japanese, 1764–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
1790s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23 x 36.7 cm (9 1/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1161
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a later edition, with added signatures and seals, of designs from an album first published in 1789 and reprinted in 1793.

The intact book: 53.453
Signed Keisai sha
Marks Artist's seal: Kitao Masayoshi
Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)