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Courtesan Reading a Letter Wall Art
ART BY: Ishikawa Toyonobu
Courtesan Reading a Letter Wall Art
ART BY: Ishikawa Toyonobu
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About this artwork
Courtesan Reading a Letter is a hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban, urushi-e by Ishikawa Toyonobu (1711–1785), dated c. 1745. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The source scan comes from the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 1395 × 3000 px (1.3 MB). It is filed under Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 81 works by Ishikawa Toyonobu, a Japanese artist.
Ishikawa Toyonobu was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ukiyo-e artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Ishikawa Toyonobu →
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