album; print

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Object Type: album; print
Museum number: 1915,0823,0.392.1
Title: Series: Iki-utsushi yonjuhachi taka 生写四十八鷹 (48 Hawks Drawn from Life)
Description: Album of colour woodblock prints by artists of the Utagawa and other schools. 12 single-sheet prints, 3 diptychs and 2 triptychs. From a set of four albums; see also 1915,0823,0.392.2, 3 and 4.
Producer name: Print artist: Sugakudo 嵩岳堂 (sheet 1); Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada II 二代歌川国貞 (sheet 2-3 and 14); Print artist: Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 (sheets 4-6); Print artist: Utagawa Kunihisa 歌川国久 (sheets 7-9); Print artist: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 (sheets 10-11 (landscape)); Print artist: Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III) (sheets 10-11 (figures); 12 and 13; 15 and 17 (figures)); Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重 (sheets 15 (landscape), 17 (landscape), and 20); Print artist: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (sheets 16, 18, 19, and 21); Print artist: Toyohara Kunichika 豊原国周 (sheet 22); Print artist: Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎 (sheet 23); Print artist: Keisai Eisen 渓斉英泉 (sheet 24)
Cultures/periods: Edo Period
Production date: 1859 (sheet 1); 1861 (sheets 2-3, 12, 13 and 20); 1863 (sheets 4-6); 1862 (sheets 7-9); 1864 (sheets 10-11, 15, 17, 22 and 23); 1857 (sheet 14); 1858 (sheets 16, 18, 19, and 21); 1830s-40s (sheet 24)
Production place: Made in: Japan
Materials: paper
Technique: woodblock; colour
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bird; courtesan/prostitute; samurai; myth/legend; leisure/entertainment; food/drink; flower; reptile; fish; bijin; landscape
Associated names: Representation of: Prince Genji; Representation of: Miura Yoshiaki 三浦義明
Associated places: Named in inscription: Shinagawa; Topographic representation of: Yoshiwara; Topographic representation of: Ryogoku-bashi; Named in inscription: Nippori; Named in inscription: Azuma Bridge; Named in inscription: Sumida-gawa; Named in inscription: Zojo-ji
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library
Acquisition date: 23 Aug 1915 (transfer date)
Acquisition notes: Transferred from Department of Oriental Manuscripts (August 1915)
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1915,0823,0.392.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1870,0718; Other BM number: 16114.b.6 (previous British Library shelfmark); Other BM number: Album.19; Other BM number: Or.c.28/No.441 (previous British Library shelfmark)

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