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Source Description
On this print, a half-length actor portrait is enframed by a picture of a willow and a full moon. The man is an Ichikawa family actor reading a letter.
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Document identity
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20862
label
Ichikawa Family Actor Reading a Letter
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object
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Source metadata
id
20862
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object
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normalized
title
Ichikawa Family Actor Reading a Letter
description
On this print, a half-length actor portrait is enframed by a picture of a willow and a full moon. The man is an Ichikawa family actor reading a letter.
provenance
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
date
ca. 1858-1865 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
color woodcuts
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1
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1
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import
Source extras
cul
Japanese
style
Osaka School
inscriptions
[Signature] Enjaku
med
color pigments and ink on mulberry paper
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6586
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JPK
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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ca55a164873cd5e1