Bloemschelp, rode schelp en de puur rode schelp, Totoya Hokkei, 1821

Title(s)

Bloemschelp, rode schelp en de puur rode schelp
Hanagai akagai masuogai (title on object)
Een serie van schelpen (series title)
Kaitsukushi (series title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-347

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 278
• Jap Cat III 133

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Tien schelpen, met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object)
• Kinfûsha Matsumaro (mentioned on object)
• Akamatsu no Shitazumi (mentioned on object)
• Bôyatei Matsuhiko (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1821

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments, blindprinting and embossing

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 206 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, 153-155, cat.nr. 278
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, cat.nr. 133
• Art of the Surimono, Theodore Robert Bowie, James T. Kenney, Fumiko Togasaki, cat.nr. 53