Carp in Waterfall

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Carp in Waterfall
Carp in Waterfall
DatePublished c. 1830 - 1844
MediumWoodblock print on paper, mounted to gold paper.
DimensionsSheet: 28 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (72.4 × 24.1 cm) Image: 28 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (72.4 × 24.1 cm) Frame: 39 1/2 × 17 1/4 in. (100.3 × 43.8 cm) Sheet (a) (top): 14 × 9 7/16 in. (35.5 × 24 cm) Sheet (b) (bottom): 14 7/16 × 9 11/16 in. (36.6 × 24.6 cm)
Credit LineHamilton College Collection
Object number2024.17
On view
DescriptionVertical ôban, upright diptych. Carp leaping up a waterfall. Japanese inscriptions in upper right and lower leftr corners.

Additional Details

Markings Upper right corner and lower left corner (stamps): signed "Keisai hitsu," with red artist's seal "Eisen"
Inscribed Verso, center (pen): [upside down] "Roerick [sic]"
Photo by John Bentham.
Date: 1910-1920
Medium: Signed color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 2024.1.4
© Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton …
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka
Date: 2021
Medium: Sumi paintings on washi, linocut on washi, rice bags, indigo, kakishibu, and gyotaku on washi, konnyaku, and handmade deckle box gampi paper
Object number: 2024.15
Photograph by John Bentham.
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 26, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.114
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Photograph by John Bentham.
John Baldessari
Date: 1992
Medium: Photogravure and drypoint with painted stencils, embossing, and hand-coloring
Object number: 2000.2.3
© Raven Chacon. Image courtesy of Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. For educational purposes…
Raven Chacon
Date: 2019
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 2021.8.1.2
© Yashua Klos. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton,…
Yashua Klos
Date: 2022
Medium: Woodblock print on muslin and oil-based, relief block ink on canvas, acrylic, spray paint, Japanese rice paper, mounted on drop cloth
Object number: 2022.4
The Biggest Scare and Hoax Yet!--The Wild Animals Let Loose Again by the  Zoomorphism Press, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 6, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: S2019.2.103
The Source - Abstract Landscape (A Small Waterfall in Clinton)
William C. Palmer
Date: likely late 1930's
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1991.163
Waterfall
Unknown artist
Date: late 19th century
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.265
Thomas Georges
Date: 1960
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2003.4.3