| schema:description 10 | "technique: color woodblock print" |
| schema:description | "id: 111689" |
| schema:description | "creditline: Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868)" |
| schema:description | "collection: Japanese Art" |
| schema:description | "type: Print" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: The pose in which Utamaro presents this beauty is typical of Japanese painting and prints. The three-quarter face is rendered with the simple outline of the eyebrow and cheek, a single line for the nose, narrow eyes, and half-parted, petal-like lips. Not the likeness of a specific individual, the print instead portrays a particular mood or character. The pink mica background was created by covering the image of the woman with a stencil and then brushing mica mixed with pink color and an adhesive onto the background. The print comes from a series that represents women from different classes....(more)" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Woman Drying Her Hands (from the series Ten Aspects of the Physiognomy of Women), c. 1793. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 36.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/2 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.218...(more)" |
| schema:description | "measurements: Sheet: 36.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/2 x 10 in.)" |
| schema:description | "inscription: Signature: Somi Utamaro ga
Publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (emblem)
Censorship Seal: kiwame" |
