Image

Previous 1 / 1 Next

Kishi Ganrei

Sparrows and bamboo, ca. 1870's

Description

Maker

Title

Sparrows and bamboo

Year

ca. 1870's

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription in black and red.Small inscription LL.

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.419

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Painterly Prints in Nineteenth-Century Japan

June 1 - September 23, 2007

Another member of the Kishi lineage of painters, Ganrei was the grandson of the school’s founder, Kishi Ganku (1756-1838). Note how the bamboo is rendered in subtle tones of green in this print and observe its somewhat monumental scale and the representation of nearly life-size sparrows.

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 Sparrows and bamboo with the accession number of 34.419. 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.