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
Danjuro VII
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
Date: c. 1790-1804
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.41
Ichikawa Ebijûrô I as Katsura Chûnagon, actually Ise Shinkurô
Shunkôsai Hokushû
Date: January 1823
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.44
Man Making Sumo Wrestling Announcement
Totoya Hokkei
Date: unknown
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.42
Sawamura Tanosuke as Lady Suzuhiro Casting a spell of revenge
Kunichika Utagawa
Date: c. 1870
Medium: Color woodblock print on paper
Object number: 1985.45
Photo by John Bentham.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date: c. 1844
Medium: Woodblock print
Object number: 1985.46a-b
Shunko
Date: 18-19th century
Medium: Color woodcut on paper
Object number: 1985.40
Mysterious Echo
Hang Sung Lee
Date: 1961
Medium: Color linoleum cut
Object number: 1984.206
Anatomy of My Universe
André Masson
Date: 1943
Medium: Bound volume with 34 reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings
Object number: 1992.46.1
Photo by John Bentham.
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: date unknown
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2024.1.3