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Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

  • Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Title

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • polychrome woodblock print

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print

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

Signature: Keisai

Seals: Artist's seal | Eisen

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.515

About

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu)

Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 138

Signature: Keisai

Seals: Artist's seal | Eisen

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

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 Copyright. This object is Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu) with the accession number of 34.515. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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