Prints, Drawings, and Photographs A Russian Woman and an Englishman Made in Japan, AsiaEdo Period (1615-1868), 1860 Ochiai Yoshiiku, Japanese, 1833 - 1904. Published by Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Kinkyū). Engraved by Fukachō(?). Color woodcut Currently not on view 1968-165-27 |
Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund and with funds contributed by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner, Dr. Emanuel Wolff, the Derald and Janet Ruttenberg Foundation, Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr., and David P. Willis, 1968LabelAlthough Japanese artists generally borrowed imagery from relatively current fashion plates and illustrations when depicting Western costumes, they were not always aware of the date when the original images were made. Occasionally the source an artist used to portray a supposedly contemporary foreign woman's attire was woefully outdated, such as the late eighteenth-century-style hat shown here. |
