Art Institute of Chicago
The Toy Seller, illustration for The Fresh-Water Clam (Shijimigai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)"
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎LinkedCulture matchlcp-3956d3d4d8b9
- Date
- 1821
- Medium
- Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 23546
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Mar. 1908; 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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