Title(s)

Red dragonfly and locust by pinks

Object type

• page

Object number

RP-P-1960-10A-1

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 36
• Jap Cat II 85

Description

Pagina 11b en 12a in deel twee van het Insectenboek van Utamaro.

Artist

• print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro
• publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo)

Place

Edo

Dating

1788

Physical features

nishikie, with mica

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 250 mm × width 180 mm

What

• flowers: carnation

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The album Selected Insects (RP-P-1960-10A)

• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 40, cat.nr. 36
• The age of Utamaro : Japanese prints c., 1780-1800, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, cat.nr. 85