Title(s)

Fabels van Fontaine - deel twee
Fables choisies de la Fontaine - tome second (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

AK-MAK-1651B

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘? van IJsselstein’
• stamp: ‘E.FLAMMARION Éditeur’

Description

Deel twee (van twee) met veertien fabels, geïllustreerd door vijf verschillende Japanse kunstenaars; 27 bladen; voorblad met titel en landschap waarin verschillende dieren, de berg Fuji op de achtergrond; titelpagina; veertien illustraties, elk over twee pagina`s; veertien fabels, genummerd; inhoudsopgave; achterblad, colofon.

Artist

• Jean de La Fontaine (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Kajita Hanko (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Okakura Shûsui (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Kano Tomonobu (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Kawanabe Kyosui (mentioned on object)
• print maker: Eda Sadahiko (mentioned on object)
• printer: Kimura Tokutaro (mentioned on object)
• printer: Magata Shigeru (Tsukiji) (mentioned on object)
• Pierre Barboutau (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Ernest Flammarion (mentioned on object)

Place

France
print maker: Tokyo
print maker: Tokyo
print maker: Tokyo
print maker: Tokyo
print maker: Tokyo
printer: Tokyo
printer: Tokyo
France
publisher: France

Dating

1894

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 250 mm × width 182 mm

Credit line

• On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Maartje Draak bequest, 1996)

Acquisition

loan 1996

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Is part of

• Fabels van Fontaine (AK-MAK-1651)

• The age of Yoshitoshi : Japanese prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods : Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata prints : recent acquisitions, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, 90-91, cat.nr. 124a