Album of Forty Actor Prints

Various artists/makers

ca. 1852

Not on view

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Title: Album of Forty Actor Prints
Artist: Utagawa Hirosada (Japanese, active 1825–75) (30)
Artist: Utagawa Kunimasu (Japanese, active 1830–52) (5)
Artist: Kunishige (Japanese) (3)
Artist: Unidentified artists Japanese, (2)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: ca. 1852
Culture: Japan
Medium: Woodblock prints in single, diptych, triptych, tetraptych, and hexaptych form
Dimensions: Vertical chūban; Image: 10 × 7 1/4 in. (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011
Object Number: 2011.149
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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