Usugumo from the collection of John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Honoré Daumier

Alliance des Bonapartistes et des Capucins (Alliance of the Bonapartists and the Capuchins), 1851

Lithograph

9.75 x 8.375 in
Konishi Hirosada

Nakamura Nanshi II playing as Koshimoto Chidori from Hirosada Seisuki, 1851

Woodblock

9.875 x 6.75 in
W. A. Reid

Shakespeare's House, Stratford-on-Avon, 1850

Etching

7.875 x 9.875 in
W. A. Reid

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, c. 1850

Etching

6 x 8 in
Setsubai uso no wakasa no kotowari (Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth), c. 1849

Woodcut

20.875 x 15.75 in
Kunishige

Hankajin Yuden, 1849

Woodblock

9.625 x 7.25 in
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重)

Senba Station, 1848

Woodblock

9.625 x 14.4375 in
Utagawa Kunisada

Sawarabi, 1843-47

Woodblock

9.75 x 7.125 in

About the artist

Utagawa Kunisada

Japanese

b. 1786

Japanese artist Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞), born in Tokyo in 1786, was a well-known printmaker. He was widely known for his prints related to the Ukiyo-e ("Pictures of the Floating World"), a movement that lasted from the seventeenth to nineteenth century. Kunisada created many books consisting of illustrative woodblock prints depicting themes of romance fiction, which was very popular during this period.

Additional Details

Additional Artworks

Alliance des Bonapartistes et des Capucins (Alliance of the Bonapartists and the Capuchins), 1851

Nakamura Nanshi II playing as Koshimoto Chidori from Hirosada Seisuki, 1851

Shakespeare's House, Stratford-on-Avon, 1850

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, c. 1850

Setsubai uso no wakasa no kotowari (Plum Blossoms and Snow through the Window, the Nature of Youth), c. 1849

Hankajin Yuden, 1849

Senba Station, 1848

Sawarabi, 1843-47

About the artist

Utagawa Kunisada