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Court Lady, from the series Sights and Specialties of Yamashiro Province (Yamashiro meisho meibutsu)


「山城名所名物」 官女
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Japanese
Edo period
about early 1820s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.2 x 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line General Funds
Accession Number00.1934
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series: Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #s 197-198; Chiba Mus., Edo no surimono (1997), #s 158-160
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1934, 11.20641

From a surimono series divided into at least two (possibly three) parts, or perhaps two different series with the same title. The first group includes seven known designs of assorted specialities of Yamashiro Province. The second group, including this design, is slightly larger in size and includes three bust portraits of women (the other two are a courtesan and a woman of Ohara).
Signed Keisai
渓斎
ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)