Shell-Matching Game, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)"

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Kitagawa Utamaro

Title

Shell-Matching Game, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)"

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

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1789

Medium

Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book

Dimensions

23.9 × 37.8 cm (9 3/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson

Reference Number

1900.709

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