Utagawa Toyokuni II (二代目歌川豊国) (artist 1777 – 1835)
Tiger and bamboo
ca 1826 – 1830
11 in x 30.6 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Gosotei Toyokuni hitsu
後素亭豊國筆
Artist's seal in red: Toyokuni (豊國)
Publisher : Yamamotoya Heikichi
(Marks 595 - seal 04-007)
Censer : kiwame
Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago There is some gauffrage in the white fur seen below the tiger's head.
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Illustrated in black and white in a catalog from 'Rare and valuable Japanese color prints...' from Anderson Galleries, New York, 1923, no. 465. On deposit in the Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet.
Yamamotoya Heikichi (山本屋平吉) (publisher)
Kakemono-e - 掛物絵 (genre)