Art Institute of Chicago
The Abalone (Awabi), from an untitled series of Shells
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- c. 1769
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 21026
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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