Various artists of the 19th century
a) Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912). Title: Sekai daiichi chiyarine daikyokuba no zu. Announcement of Circus Chiarini. Signed: Yôshû Chikanobu hitsu. Publisher: Ôkura Shirôbei. Date: Meiji 19 (1886). And two ôban from triptychs. Young emperor Taishô. And dance party. Both unsigned. b) Morikawa Chikashige (act. 1869 -1882). Title: Shôniyaku-ô Kindoru-san. Theater announcement with advertisement for Kinder Puwder. Signed: Morikawa Chikashige hitsu. Toshidama seal. Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirô. Date: Meiji 13 (1880). c) Toyohara Kuniteru III (act. around 1880-1900). Ôban triptych. Title: Shina Hokkin no kei. Chinese landscape and imperial portraits. Signed: Toyohara Kuniteru ga. Publisher: Ishii Rokunosuke. Date: Meiji 27(1894)? d) Utagawa Yoshitora (act. around 1836-1887). Ôban. Indian acrobats on horseback. Signed: Yoshitora ga. Publisher: Fujiokaya Keisuke. Censor and date: aratame, 3/1864. And ôban triptych. Title: Nisshinkan kiken goshôzô. Portraits of Japanese, Chinese and Korean emper Good to very good impressions and colours, strong traces of usage, b) blind printing.
Provenienz
Gerhard Dambmann collection
Literaturhinweise
Gerhard Dambmann, Wie Japan den Westen entdeckte. Eine Geschichte in Farbholzschnitte, Stuttgart/Zürich 1988, no. 18, no. 24, no. 26, no. 27, no. 52, no. 53 and no. 55