De paarse schelp, Katsushika Hokusai, 1821

Title(s)

De paarse schelp
Murasakigai (title on object)
Een vergelijking van Genroku gedichten en schelpen (series title)
Genroku kasen kaiawase (series title on object)

Object type

Object number

RP-P-1958-273

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat III 26
• Forrer 233

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, passe-partout, bottom left, printed: JABdH with a rooster.
• collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228

Description

Twee groepen vissers trekken een walvis op het droge. De locatie is het dorp Katase, tegenover Enoshima eiland. De schelp waar de titel naar verwijst is afgebeeld in het waaiervormige cartouche. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object)
• Yomo no Utagaki Magao (mentioned on object)
• Tsukinoya Shitakage (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1821

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 174 mm

What

• swimming mammals: whale

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 125, cat.nr. 233
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 27-28, cat.nr. 26
• Art of the Surimono, Theodore Robert Bowie, James T. Kenney, Fumiko Togasaki, cat.nr. 110
• A sheaf of Japanese papers in tribute to Heinz Kaempfer on his 75th birthday, Matthi Forrer, Willem R. van Gulik, Jack Ronald Hillier, p. 13
• Egoyomi and surimono : their history and development, Matthi Forrer, p. 13
• One hundred surimono in the collection of Sidney C. Ward, Sidney C. Ward, Sidney C. Ward, cat.nr. 13
• Fine Japanese prints from the Collection of Sidney C. Ward., Christie’s, Manson & Woods International (New York), 1985-11-05, cat.nr. 72.