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

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

• Edo no surimono : ikijintachi no okurimono, cat.nr. 155
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 75, cat.nr. 116
• Surimono : schenking Goslings 1999 deel 2, J.H.W. Goslings, J.H.W. Goslings, p. 10, cat.nr. 323
• The art of surimono : privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 392
• Hokusai and his school : paintings, drawings and illustrated books arranged by the Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, Matthi Forrer, Willem R. van Gulik, H.M. Kaempfer, cat.nr. 72
• Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kenji Toda, Frederick William Gookin, 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.