Reflectieschelp, ivoorschelp en tritonschelp, Totoya Hokkei, 1821

Title(s)

Reflectieschelp, ivoorschelp en tritonschelp
Utsusegai baishi hora (title on object)
Een serie van schelpen (series title)
Kaitsukushi (series title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-350

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 279
• Jap Cat III 134

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Een grote tritonschelp met kleinere schelpen. Met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object)
• Gochikuen Chiyosumi (mentioned on object)
• Asahi no Machiyasu (mentioned on object)
• Nankutsutei Yoshina (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1821

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 206 mm × width 182 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. 153-155, cat.nr. 279
• Jewels of Japanese printmaking : surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei era 1804-1830, Joan B. Mirviss, John T. Carpenter, cat.nr. 36
• Surimono : poetry and image in Japanese prints, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Lee Bruschke-Johnson, cat.nr. 62
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 77, cat.nr. 134