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Keisai Eisen

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu), ca. 1820

Description

Maker

  • Keisai Eisen, 1790-1848, Japanese

Title

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu)

Year

ca. 1820

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Image: 16.8 x 24.1 cm (6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 138

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.515

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

This wonderful close-up of nature was designed by Eisen, a mainstream ukiyo-e artist whose usual subjects were courtesans and landscapes.

Japanese Prints

March 10 - June 9, 1998

If Insects Could Speak

July 29 - September 11, 1994

If Insects Could Speak

July 6 - September 2, 1990

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu) with the accession number of 34.515. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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