UTAGAWA SADAHIDE (1807-1873)
UTAGAWA YOSHITORA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1850–80)
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Price Realised GBP 1,250
Estimate
GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500
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Closed: 28 Jun 2016
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Two Yokohama Prints
UTAGAWA SADAHIDE (1807-1873)
UTAGAWA YOSHITORA (ACTIVE CIRCA 1850–80)
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Lot Essay
The first triptych depicts in lively detail the interior of a trader's house with two Western clerks, a Chinese man holding up a length of cloth and a butcher cutting meat.
For another impression of the first and second in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, go to: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/55259 http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/73488
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Condition report
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Both good impressions and colour.
1. Trimming to each sheet - more so to left and right sheets. Small nicks to edges and a small repair to the lower left edge of the right sheet. A few minute repairs to other edges. Slight toning and some minor marks.
2. Trimming to each sheet - more so to the left sheet. Middle and right sheets with left margin repaired. Minor toning.