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Two Men Looking through Window Lattice at a Courtesan Writing a Letter


恋文を書く遊女
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769–70 (Meiwa 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 65.8 x 12.4 cm (25 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.4561
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #571; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #799.1, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 440; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #246
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.