Drie schildpadden tussen waterplanten, Yashima Gakutei, c. 1819

Title(s)

Drie schildpadden tussen waterplanten
Een serie van twee prenten van kraanvogels en schildpadden (series title)
Tsurukame niban (series title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1958-424

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 389
• Jap Cat III 202

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark, passe-partout, bottom left, printed: JABdH with a rooster.

Description

Drie schildpadden zwemmen tussen de waterplanten. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object)
• Kinkokuen Mahiro (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1819

Physical features

nishikie, with metallic pigments

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 201 mm × width 177

What

• tortoises, turtles

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Edo no surimono : ikijintachi no okurimono, cat.nr. 237
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 212, cat.nr. 389
• The art of surimono : privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Roger S. Keyes, cat.nr. 30
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, cat.nr. 202
• Surimono uit het legaat van Dr. J.A. Bierens de Haan, p. 40, afb. 3
• Masterpieces of Ukiyoe from the Pulverer Collection (Doitsu Puruveraaa korekushon ukiyoe hanga meihinten), dl. 2, Tokyo 1990, cat.nr. 71.