Vergeten schelp, pruimenbloesem schelp en kersen schelp, Totoya Hokkei, 1821

Title(s)

Vergeten schelp, pruimenbloesem schelp en kersen schelp
Wasuregai, umenohanagai, sakuragai (title on object)
Een serie van schelpen (series title)
Kaitsukushi (series title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-345

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 280
• Jap Cat III 132

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Grotere grijze schelp met roze zaagschelpje en overige schelpjes. Met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object)
• Yoyoan Teruzumi (mentioned on object)
• Asahi Tomohiko (mentioned on object)
• Asahi Nokimori (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1821

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 209 mm × width 183 mm

What

• molluscs (+ shell, snail-shell etc.)

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 154, cat.nr. 280
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 76, cat.nr. 132
• Ukiyo-e : die Kunst der heiteren vergänglichen Welt, Japan 17.-19. Jahrhundert : Sammlung Scheiwe, Rose Hempel, cat.nr. 343
• Japanische Holzschnitte : Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung Theodor Scheiwe, Münster ; Ausstellung des Museums für Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt Köln, 10. Mai - 20. Juli 1969, Rose Hempel, Theodor Scheiwe, cat.nr. 182
• Claude Boisgirard en Axel de Heeckeren, Très importante collection de 750 surimono, de calendriers, de nagaye et d'oban, Drouot (Parijs), 1977-12-12/15, cat.nr. 79.