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| Artist: | Shunei Katsukawa (1762-1819) — 勝川春英 |
| Title: | The Puppet Master |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Ko-tanzaku
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| Format (this edition): | Ko-tanzaku |
| DB artwork code: | 40690 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 16 June 2007
The Puppet Master
Artist: Katsukawa Shunei
Format: Hosoban tate-e: 12" x 5.5" approx
Subject: The half-naked actor Kitaoka Nizaemon VII in the role of a puppet master operating his bijin doll.
A particularly rare and well preserved Shunei design of which we can find no other record.
Date: c.1790
Condition: Full size. Two tiny wormholes restored. Minor marks and flaws. Generally extremely good state for an 18th century print.
Colour: Remarkably well preserved with fading of the blue tonsure
Impression: Very fine |
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