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Soken Landscape Picture Album (Soken sansui gafu) 素絢山水画譜

1818
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 素絢山水画譜
  • Title: Soken Landscape Picture Album (Soken sansui gafu) 素絢山水画譜
  • Artist: Yamaguchi Soken 山口素絢 (Japanese, 1759–1818)
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: 1818
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Set of two woodblock printed books; ink and hand-coloring (vol. 2) on paper
  • Dimensions: each: 10 1/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25.5 × 18.2 cm)
  • Classification: Illustrated Books
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
  • Object Number: 2013.829a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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