Java Sparrow and Camelias

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Photo by John Bentham.
Java Sparrow and Camelias
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Date1830s
MediumWoodblock print
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 13 3/4 in. × 5 in. (34.9 × 12.7 cm) Support: 14 in. × 5 1/4 in. (35.6 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2024.1.1
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Additional Details

Provenance Gift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951, 1985
Markings Embossed seal at lower right: [seal stamp]

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai; publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô)
Inscribed Inscribed in ink at upper left: [Japanese text]; in ink at lower right: [Japanese text]; in pencil on verso at lower center: 4311

Poem:

Wakasama ni/mizukobu shigeri/hana tsubaki

Brimming with youth,/you splash out all your water-/camellia flower!

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu
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