Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<JOURNEY TO CHINA>: (6) CHINESE PROPRIETY: In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle...
Date | 1844 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 25.0 x 20.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower left: h. D.; numbered on the stone, lower right: 553 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 1194 (ii/ii), Tobu III-192 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1457 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 2010
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Outsiders, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 10 December 2010 - 13 February 2011, cat. no. 80
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 121.