Beauty Reading a Letter

Provenance

Yamanaka & Company; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, Feb. 1905; by descent to his sister, Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Beauty Reading a Letter

Ishikawa Toyonobu

c. 1758

Accession Number

19777

Medium

Color woodblock print; o-oban, benizuri-e

Dimensions

43.4 × 31.2 cm (12 1/8 × 17 in.); Mat: 71.2 × 50.8 cm (28 × 20 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection