Leaping Carp

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Photo by John Bentham.
Leaping Carp
Photo by John Bentham.
Date1910-1920
MediumSigned color woodblock print on paper
DimensionsComposition: 13 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (34.9 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2024.1.4
On view
DescriptionDepicts a carp leaping from the water
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Provenance Gift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Markings Seal stamp in red ink lower left corner: Koson
Signature Signed in ink at upper right: [Kanji]
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: F-1

Black ink characters in lower left corner: Koson signature
Carp in Waterfall
Carp in Waterfall
Date: Published c. 1830 - 1844
Medium: Woodblock print on paper, mounted to gold paper.
Object number: 2024.17
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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.
Scene from "Imoseyama onna teikin (An Example of Noble Womanhood, or The Teachings for Women)"
Toyokuni III
Date: 1852
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print on two sheets of paper
Object number: 1994.92
Sawamura Tanosuke as Lady Suzuhiro Casting a spell of revenge
Sawamura Tanosuke as Lady Suzuhiro Casting a spell of revenge
Toyohara Kunichika
Date: c. 1870
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.45
The Precocious Girl (Ochappii)
The Precocious Girl (Ochappii)
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1802-1803
Medium: Nishiki-e color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1996.15.38
Interlocked Forms
Interlocked Forms
Werner Drewes
Date: 1975
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1988.12
Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Katsura Chûnagon, actually Ise Shinkurô
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Shunkôsai Hokushû
Date: January 1823
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.44
Man Making Sumo Wrestling Announcement
Man Making Sumo Wrestling Announcement
Totoya Hokkei
Date: 19th century
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.42
Image Not Available for Portrait of actor
Portrait of actor
Shunman, Kubo
Date: late 18th-early 19th century
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.48
Danjuro VII
Danjuro VII
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
Date: c. 1790-1804
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.41
Photo by John Bentham.
A spinning-top performance by Takezawa Toji (recto); Kodakara Yuu (verso)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date: c. 1844
Medium: Woodblock print
Object number: 1985.46a-b
The True-Hearted Squire, from "Harper's Weekly"
The True-Hearted Squire, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 22, 1886
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
Object number: 1944.1.71