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Collection Online as of September 29, 2023

Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women

c. 1798

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print

Sheet: 38.8 x 25.2 cm (15 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)

Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.337

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Waka)

Provenance
Tadamasa Hayashi
Julio E. van Caneghem (sale: Walpole Galleries, March 3, 1921, lot 259)
(Yamanaka & Co.)
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 54 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 67 archive.org
Exhibition history

Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).

Ways of Drawing Faces. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1921.337