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
Not on view

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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