A Turner and His Assistant, Hishikawa Sôri, 1802

Title(s)

A Turner and His Assistant

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1999-235

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 116
• Goslings 323

Description

Een draaier zittend naast een draaibank (rokuro) waarmee deksels voor kommen gemaakt worden. Zijn assistente gebruikt touwen om de bank te draaien. Met drie gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Hishikawa Sôri (mentioned on object)
• Itaya Munenari (mentioned on object)
• Ôsentei Chikamura (mentioned on object)
• Kôsentei Takatatsu (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1802

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments and blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 134 mm × width 189 mm

What

• handicrafts, craftsman at work
• machines; parts of machines; tools and appliances

Credit line

• Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse

Acquisition

gift 1999

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

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• AC-00049526object | reproductionobject | reproductieRP37146 18x24RM0001.COLLECT.1500049525

• Edo no surimono, cat.nr. 155
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 75, cat.nr. 116
• Surimono, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 10, cat.nr. 323
• The art of surimono, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 392
• Hokusai and his school, Matthi 1948- Forrer, cat.nr. 72
• Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kenji Toda, cat.nr. 240f
• Block printing & book illustrations in Japan, Louise Norton Brown
• Kokusho somokuroku (General Catalogue of National Books), 8 vols., Tokyo 1963-1977, vol. IV, p. of cat.nr. 540.
• Masterpieces of Ukiyoe from the Pulverer Collection (Doitsu Puruveraaa korekushon ukiyoe hanga meihinten), Tokyo 1990, dl. 3, cat.nr. 44.