Name: Katsukawa Shuncho (act. c. 1780-1801) Kitagawa Utamaro II (d. c. 1831) Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829)
Brand: THREE WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF WOMEN
Price: 650.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Katsukawa Shuncho (active circa 1780-1801)
Kitagawa Utamaro II (died circa 1831)
Chobunsai Eishi (1756-1829)
Three woodblock prints of women
Visiting the Masaki Inari Shrine, signed Shuncho ga, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), 1786 (one sheet of a triptych)

Awabi Fishers, signed Utamaro hitsu (Utamaro II) (probably one sheet of a triptych)

Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River under Ohashi Bridge, signed Eishi ga, published by Shueido, circa 1792 (one sheet of a pentaptych)
All vertical oban:
Each sheet approx. 36.7 x 25cm.

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For two sheets from the triptych of the first design (including the design of this lot) in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1927,0613,0.17, go to www.britishmuseum.org/research and also in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.14780-1, go to http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/visiting-the-masaki-inari-shrine-506133

For the complete pentaptych of the second in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 11.14118, 11.21179-21182, go to:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/pleasure-boats-on-the-sumida-river-under-shin-%C3%B4hashi-bridge-512694