Woman Reading a Letter, from the series New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style (Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata shin-moyô)

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Woman Reading a Letter, from the series New Patterns of Brocade Woven in Utamaro Style (Nishiki-ori Utamaro-gata shin-moyô)

「錦織歌麿形新模様」　文読み

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1796–98 (Kansei 8–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 x 24.4 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6440

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #273; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #94.1.1, pl. 14; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 132.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #262; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #73

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.