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Intocht van Leopold Willem, landvoogd der Zuidelijke Nederlanden, te Gent
Object type: print
Date: 1653 – 1653
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: vienna, leopold willem van oostenrijk (landvoogd der zuidelijke nederlanden), equestrian state-portrait, conqueror triumphing, triumphal entry of victor
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Intocht van Leopold Willem, landvoogd der Zuidelijke Nederlanden, te Gent. Prent bestaande uit vier delen. Leopold Willem te paard komt door een triomfboog de stad binnen waar hij ontvangen wordt door putti met de wapenschilden van de verschillende steden in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. De Gentse stedenmaagd heet hem welkom. Rechts vluchten de vijanden en plunderaars.
Jos. Ahorner v. Ahornrain
Object type: print
Date: 1820 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Panel with Virgin and Child with Angels
Object type: panel
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ivory, silver, wood
Culture: european
Subjects: virgin mary,jesus
Amphora with dragon-shaped handles
Object type: amphora
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Culture: chinese
Fort Johnson
Object type: photograph
Date: 1861 – 1865
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: fortification,american civil war
Saint George
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, relief
Location: mexico
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Sheet of studies with the head of the artist, a beggar man, woman and child
Object type: print
Date: 1651 – 1651
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Subjects: amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, rembrandt van rijn, beggar
Inscriptions: mark: Lugt 2228, monogram and date: ‘RHL 1631’, inscription: ‘338 (doorgestreept) en 337’ Gersaint nummer
Encomium musices
Object type: print
Date: 1587 – 1592
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: musical instruments; group of musical instruments, making music in church, holy mass (divine service, especially of roman catholic church), printed edition of musical score
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Muzikale viering van de heilige mis met musicerende mannen (hoorns, trombones) en lezenaren met koorboeken. Onder de voorstelling zes versregels in het Latijn. Linksonder genummerd: 17. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Muziek en muziekinstrumenten: Muziekinstrumenten op bijbelprenten.
Sgra-Snyan
Object type: sgra snyan
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: wood
Culture: nepalese
Location: tibet
Taken van de drie standen
Object type: print
Date: 1563 – 1570
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: haarlem
Subjects: god the father, the three estates: nobility, clergy, commoners

God, zittend op een wolk met cherubijnen, geeft de knielende paus, keizer en landbouwer elk een opdracht. De paus, als hoofd van de geestelijke stand, behoort te bidden voor het zielenheil van ieder individu (Tu precare). De keizer, samen met de rest van de heersende klasse, dient de rechtstaat te handhaven (Tu iustitiam exercere). De landbouwer vertegenwoordigt het grootste deel van de bevolking, de derde stand. Hij dient te werken om zo de rest van de bevolking te voeden en welvaart te creëren (Tu labora). Onder de voorstelling een verklarende tekst in het Latijn. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van een man met bakkebaarden
Object type: photograph
Date: 1866 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: zutphen
Artist: johan christiaan reesinck
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1838 – 1922
Subjects: sideburns, historical persons, neck-gear ~ clothing, clothing for the upper part of the body
Inscriptions: address: ‘Zutphen Berkelkade’, address: ‘Arnhem’

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van een Nederlandse familie met 168 cartes-de-visite en kabinetfoto's.
Schetsblad met diverse paddenstoelen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1848 – 1927
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: august allebé
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1927
Portret van Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Object type: page
Date: 1871 – 1876
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Artist: antoine-samuel adam-salomon
Artist role: sculptor
Artist dates: 1818 – 1881
Subjects: paris, alphonse karr, adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Galerie Contemporaine, 126, boulevard de Magenta.’
Peaches, Pomegranate, and Fingered Citron
Object type: folding fan
Date: 1832 – 1832
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: yamamoto baiitsu
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1783 – 1856
Subjects: peaches,pomegranates
Scaraboid: Dwarf Figure
Object type: costume and accessory
Materials: glaze, stone
Techniques: glazing
Culture: egyptian
Location: egypt
Subjects: deities, cobras, gods (deities)
Sobere maaltijd van de eerste christenen en de heilige Spiridon van Cyprus die een gast gezouten varkensvlees aanbiedt
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: the early christian churches, e.g. armenians, copts, syrians, fasting, abstinence from food ~ ascetic life, hospitality; 'hospitalità' (ripa), kinds of meat (with name), male saints (with name), bread, loaf, evening meal, dinner, supper, broth, soup, utilitarian, public pump or water fountain
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee voorstellingen op een plaat. Boven: op de voorgrond zitten enkele vroege christenen rond een tafel. Ze danken God voor de eenvoudige maaltijd en eten brood. Op de achtergrond wordt soep gekookt en wordt water uit een bron gehaald. Onder: de H. Spiridon van Cyprus zit aan tafel met een gast. Hij biedt zijn gast gezouten varkensvlees aan, maar deze weigert omdat hij aan het vasten is.
Akashi Ridayu Hidemoto
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa kuniyoshi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1861
Subjects: weapons,men

In this series, all the characters figured in the civil wars of the sixteenth century, an era that was uncomfortably close to the Edo period's Tokugawa shogunate. Thus, all are disguised as figures in the Taiheiki (Chronicle of Great Peace), a history of the wars of royalists against the Ashikaga warlords during the second quarter of the fourteenth century. However, the names of the heroes in the series have been changed, and it is difficult to identify the actual historical figures. This print portrays Akashi Ridayū Hidemoto wearing a straw rain cloak over his armor and armed with two swords and a hoe. A straw hat and blooming iris lie on the ground at his feet. He stands firmly with tightly closed lips and brandishes the hoe in a threatening manner.
The Express Train
Object type: print
Date: 1859 – 1859
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Artist: charles parsons
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1821 – 1910
Subjects: trains

Nathaniel Currier, whose successful New York-based lithography firm began in 1835, produced thousands of hand-colored prints in various sizes that together create a vivid panorama of mid-to-late nineteenth century American life and its history. People eagerly acquired such lithographs featuring picturesque scenery, rural and city views, ships, portraits, hunting and fishing scenes, domestic life and numerous other subjects, as an inexpensive way to decorate their homes or business establishments. As the firm expanded, Nathaniel recruited his younger brother Charles into the business. In 1857, James Merritt Ives (the firm's accountant since 1852 and Charles's brother-in-law) was made a business partner; subsequently renamed Currier & Ives, the firm continued until 1907. Starting in 1853, Nathaniel Currier (and later Currier & Ives) published thirty prints featuring trains for those Americans wanting pictures of the then-modern mode of transportation that provided a convenient way to travel and ship goods around the country. In this railroad scene by Charles Parsons, a locomotive (with a puff of black smoke trailing from its black smokestack) pulls a tender trimmed with red-and-gold ornamentation, a light brown cargo car and four yellow passenger cars as it heads from left to right across the image. The engineer, stoker and conductor (who stands between passenger and baggage cars) are clearly visible. In the far right distance, there is a town with a church steeple. For nineteenth-century viewers, this print showed how trains were transforming rural America.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Seven Cranes in Flight
Object type: inrō
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: gold, gold foil, lacquer, silver
Techniques: fundame, hiramakie
Culture: japanese
Subjects: cranes
Bacchus en Ariadne omgeven door bladvormige ornamenten
Object type: print
Date: 1704 – 1704
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: simon gribelin
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1661 – 1733
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, 'tropaion', i.e. decorative ornament ~ weapons, (story of) ariadne and bacchus, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', ornament derived from plant forms
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

De eerste versie van deze prentserie is uitgegeven in 1682 met de titel 'A Book of Severall Ornaments'.
Nieuwstad. Leeuwarden
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1897 – 1905
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: canals, waters (in city), bridge in city across river, canal, etc., street
Ex libris van Daniël François Scheurleer
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1865 – 1913
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: daniël françois scheurleer, notation of music, horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba, ornament ~ festoon, garland
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Februarius
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: utrecht
Subjects: pancakes, february and its 'labours', frying - cc - in the open air
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een jonge en een oude vrouwen bakken in de open lucht pannenkoeken in het bijzijn van drie kinderen.
Dharamtala street with the Tipu Sultan Shahi mosque and the Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church at right, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1875
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: kolkata
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior), temple, shrine ~ islam, mohammedanism, street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Onderdeel van Reisalbum met opnames van bezienswaardigheden in India, Duitsland, Zwitserland en Frankrijk.
Nehemiah before King Artaxerxes, initial ‘C’ from a Bible
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1430 – 1430
Materials: gold leaf, ink, parchment, watercolor
Techniques: gilding, pen
Location: netherlands
Artist: masters of zweder van culemborg
Woman Seated on a Tabouret
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: gouache, paper, paint, pastel, watercolor
Techniques: heightening
Location: england
Artist: henry stacy marks
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1829 – 1898
Twee valkenjagers, van achteren gezien
Object type: drawing
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: spoils of the hunt, game, venison (+ hunting with falcon, hawk; falconry)

Twee valkenjagers, een te paard en een te voet, van achteren gezien.
Nu ik mijn vijand heb gemaakt geheel confuys / So stap ik onvermoeyd / weer naar mijn boeren-huys
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1793
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met een grote voorstelling van een haan. Op de achtergrond twee kippen en een boerderij. De voorstelling is gevat in een sierlijst. Genummerd rechtsboven: **16.
Daff
Object type: daff
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: parchment, wood
Culture: arabian
Location: arabia
Spijker uit het wrak van de Oostindiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: nagel, spijker
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: iron
Artist: Anonymous
Candelabra grotesque with four children playing, from a series of twelve candelabra grotesques
Object type: print ornament architecture
Date: 1490 – 1515
Techniques: engraving
Artist: giovanni antonio da brescia
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1490 – 1525
Subjects: children,candelabra

Composed of playful putti, reptilian handles, cuirasses (breastplate armor), and foliage, this ornamental panel belongs to a series of twelve designed and engraved by Birago in collaboration with Brescia. While certainly fantastical, candelabra designs were inspired by real objects: the ancient Roman candelabrum. More directly, Birago’s candelabra were informed by fifteenth-century northern Italian architectural ornament and the manuscript illuminations he made in the service of the Sforza court in Milan. The large scale and sculptural quality of these prints after Birago’s designs convey a sense of monumentality and led to their popularity as models for sculpted reliefs across Europe.
Hofhouding en muzikanten in de begrafenisstoet van prinses Maria Louise, 1765
Object type: print
Date: 1765 – 1765
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leeuwarden
Subjects: military music, cortege, funeral procession
Inscriptions: date

De leden van de stadhouderlijke hofhouding, een paukenier en vier trompetters. Gemerkt rechtsonder: Pl. VII. Op het blad onder de plaat de namen van personen in de stoet. Onderdeel van de serie platen van de begrafenis van prinses Maria Louise te Leeuwarden op 13 juni 1765.
Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines
Object type: capital
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: limestone
Techniques: carving, relief
Location: egypt
Subjects: leaves,vines

Vines and leaves cover the surface of the stone, veiling its mass. This new style was used throughout the Byzantine world in the sixth century, most elegantly in the emperor Justinian's rebuilding of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani I
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1647
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: rome
Subjects: (story of) silenus, piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Standbeeld van Silenus met een zak wijn in de handen. Naast hem een tijger. Midden onder op de basis het wapenschild van Vincenzo Giustiniani. Prent maakt deel uit van een album met een serie prenten naar de sculpturen in de verzameling in de Galleria Giustiniani te Rome.
Offer van een stier, naar Raphaël
Object type: print
Date: 1816 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Rubberbomen op Brussel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1913 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: east sumatra
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: plantation, (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber
Inscriptions: inscription

Blad met negen foto's van rubberbomen op plantage Brussel. Onder de foto's etiketten met onderschriften. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum over de plantages Brussel en Pernantian van de Sumatra Caoutchouc Maatschappij op de Oostkust van Sumatra in de jaren 1910-1935.
Joujou de Normandie
Object type: brochure
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: yoyo
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641
Luebeck
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1920
Materials: photographic process, photographic support
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: lübeck
Les Ruines a gauche
Object type: print
Date: 1605 – 1650
Techniques: etching
Artist: jean morin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1605 – 1650
Subjects: ruins,trees
Vita D. ioannis Baptistae
Object type: print
Date: 1617 – 1617
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: venice
Subjects: john the baptist leaves his parents to go into the wilderness
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Onderdeel van een serie van dertien prenten en een titelprent.
[Black Soldier in Camp]
Object type: photograph
Date: 1863 – 1863
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: alexander gardner
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american, scottish
Artist dates: 1821 – 1882
Subjects: tents,soldiers,men,portraits
Psalmodikon
Object type: psalmodikon
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: metal, wood
Culture: norwegian
Location: norway
Artist: w. harloff
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: norwegian
Portret van een jongen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1871 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: harlingen
Artist: benjamin van der heide
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1837 – 1928
Subjects: boy (child between toddler and youth)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photographie van B. van der Heide/ Harlingen/ Bekroond op de tentoonstelling van Nijverheid te Harlingen 1871’
Naar beneden kijkende man met muts
Object type: print
Date: 1904 – 1926
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Location: groningen
Artist: marius holleman
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1878 – 1926
Subjects: head-gear: hat, looking downwards
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Reading a Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and a Ruined Church
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas gainsborough
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1727 – 1788
Subjects: animals,tombs,ruins,men,landscapes
Buste van een oude man met baard en muts
Object type: print
Date: 1708 – 1779
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, roulette
Location: france
Subjects: head-gear: cap (+ men's clothes), old man, beard
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Harpokrates or Dionysus
Object type: ring, harpokrates or dionysus
Materials: gold
Location: egypt

On this ring appears the bust of a god wearing a hemhem crown and with long locks or a possibly a nemes.The god represented must be a male and Harpokrates or Dionysus have been suggested. The bust was hammered and chased, rather than cast, out of gold and then soldered at an angle to the flat bezel of this ring. Rings of this form are most characteristic of Egypt..
A family at supper
Object type: photograph
Date: 1887 – 1897
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: (late) supper, interior ~ representation of a building, sitting on the ground - aa - female human figure
Length
Object type: length
Date: 1850 – 1859
Materials: cotton
Subjects: human figures,trees
Shallow bowl with prunus and pinetree
Object type: bowl
Date: 1670 – 1690
Materials: glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: arita
Artist: Anonymous

AK-NM-6401 Twee ondiepe kommen

• Japans gekleurd porselein – Kakiemon
• Onderdeel van Royers porseleincollectie

Dit is een vrij zeldzame vorm. Alleen in de Shobat-collectie vond ik precies deze vorm met dezelfde beschildering [Shibata Collectie 1997, vol V, nr. 90. P. 74]. Maar het decor in het plat komt veel voor [Jenyns 1965, pl. 77A, Hinton & Impey 1989. Nr. 28A], ook op Meissen-porselein uit de jaren ’20 en ’20 van de 18de eeuw, hetgeen wijst op de grote waardering op dat moment voor Kakiemon-porselein [Shono 1973, pl. 43 (bord) en 73 (terrine)].

Bronnen:
Soame Jenyns, Japanese porcelain, Londen, 1965.
Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten "Kakiemonstil" als Vorbild für die Meissener Porzellanmanufaktur, München, 1973.
Mark Hinton, Oliver Impey, Kakiemon porcelain from the English country house: flowers of fire, Londen, 1989.
Shibata Collection (cat. Kyushu Ceramic Museum). Kyushu, 1991-1998.
Waste Bowl
Object type: waste bowl
Date: 1770 – 1795
Materials: silver
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: john letelier sr.
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1740 – 1798
Fragment gedraaide koperstrip uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: fragment
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: copper
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Varied parts or fragments, strips and strip-shaped fragments; fragm.
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: cotton, silk
Culture: american

Incorporating the high-style elements and silhouette, this dress is a 'tour de force' of elaborate dressmaking of the 1880s. It was common for children's clothing to have hints of the stylish bustle of the 1880s without the full-blown aspect of the silhouette.
Zittende naakte vrouw
Object type: print
Date: 1914 – 1914
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: simon moulijn
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1948
Subjects: sitting figure - aa - female human figure, woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760, number: ‘no. 4.’

Een naakte zittende vrouw, op de rug gezien voor een donkere achtergrond.
Landschap met water, mogelijk de zee
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1927
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: south holland
Artist: johan antonie de jonge
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1864 – 1927
Subjects: landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone), sea

Landschap met water, mogelijk de zee. Blad 3 verso uit een schetsboek met 34 bladen.
Lacrosse, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,women,sports

The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.
Tree on a River Bank
Object type: illustrated album leaf or single work
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: cotton
Techniques: painting
Location: india
Subjects: rivers,trees
Salver
Object type: salver
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: metal, silver

This electrotype is after a sixteenth-century original in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, at the time of reproduction.
Types indigènes
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: africans, historical persons, card games
Early Evening in Yoshiwara Inn
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: unidentified artist
Artist role: artist
Subjects: inns,interiors,men,women
Head of Christ
Object type: drawing
Date: 1700 – 1750
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: pedro  duque cornejo
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1677 – 1757
Subjects: heads,jesus
Architectuurstudie en een figuur
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: anatomy (non-medical), architecture

Blad 15 verso uit een schetsboek met 15 bladen.
Ono no Komachi Praying for Rain
Object type: print
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: chōbunsai eishi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1756 – 1829
Subjects: women,rain,servants,umbrellas

In this sophisticated image of beauties enjoying an outing, the original content of the theme is intentionally obscured. Only the rain and the small boat in the distance refer to the Kabuki play Komachi Praying for Rain. The lushness of the summer scene and the fresh beauty of the women are subtly enhanced by the avoidance of color in the monochrome print. Throughout his career, Chōbunsai Eishi, son of a samurai family, focused exclusively on the subject of elegant women.