YOSHIKAZU (fl.1850-70 ca.). France. (Sold)
Artist:
Utagawa Yoshikazu (active 1850-1870 ca.)
Subject:
French photographer and a lady.
Title:
Furansu (France)
Series:
From a series without title depicting foreigners.
Signature:
Ichikawa Yoshikazu ga
Date:
II/1861. Aratame seal for the Cock Year, second month.
Publisher:
Izumiya Ichibei
Size:
Oban tate-e, 36,5x23,8 cm
Medium:
Woodblock color print.
Literature:
Another impression is illustrated and described in detail in Allen Hockley, Cameras, Photographs and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints, in Impressions The Journal of The Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. no. 23, 2001.
Remarks:
One of the first ukiyo-e prints depicting a photographer. Yoshikazu and Kunichika, are the two ukiyo-e artists with a strong interest in depicting photography judging from the number of their prints with this subject. Other impressions of this print are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, no. JP3323b and in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, no. 2007.214.22
Conditions:
Very good impression and colour, good conditions.
Item no:
C 999
Status:
Sold