All works in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum

anonymous

Boy on a Hobby-horse

Japan, 1786

Object data

nishikie

height 118 mm × width 64 mm

Inscriptions

  • stamped on verso with unidentified collector's mark

Provenance

…; purchased from the dealer Kunsthandel Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1991

Object number: RP-P-1991-607

Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Copyright: Public domain

Context

Entry

A page boy in court-dress riding a hobby-horse. His long loose hair, clothing, and court-cap, eboshi, identify him as a court page. This print is a picture calendar, egoyomi, for the New Horse Year 1786, the numerals for the long months, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 11, shown in reserve on his kimono.

Issued anonymously
Unsigned

Literature

M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 5

Citation

M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Boy on a Hobby-horse, Japan, 1786', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363071

(accessed 26 November 2024 06:36:07).

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