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Woman with child and infant – Historic Print

Woman with child and infant, [between 1750 and 1810?] — historic drawing
Woman with child and infant, [between 1750 and 1810?]. Historic drawing from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Unlike the woodblock prints that fill most collections of Japanese art, this is an original drawing in ink with light washes of color, signed by an artist named Kyuro. It shows a woman with a young child and an infant, a scene of everyday family life that Edo-period artists returned to often. The date is uncertain, estimated between about 1750 and 1810, a period when ukiyo-e artists were refining images of domestic and female subjects for a growing urban audience. Its inclusion in a Library of Congress exhibition on the floating world suggests it was valued as a rare, hand-made counterpart to the printed images that spread those themes.

Created / published[between 1750 and 1810?]
Medium1 drawing on paper : ink and light colors ; 27.2 x 24.1 cm.
Genreorganized by the Library of Congress, 2001.
NotesTitle and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Alternate title from exhibit caption for item. Signed Kyuro. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 22, p. 48. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows
SubjectsDomestic life--Japan--1750-1810. Women--Japan--1750-1810. Children--Japan--1750-1810. Poetry--Japanese--1750-1810.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,621 × 4,438 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221865

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