House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Provenance

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

House cleaning in preparation for the New Year

Kitagawa Utamaro

late 1790s

Accession Number

21687

Medium

Color woodblock print; three left sheets of oban pentaptych

Dimensions

38.8 × 77 cm (15 5/16 × 30 3/8 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection