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Duck watercolour of a Northern Pintail: help needed to identify it
Posted by: PlusfoursThis looks like an original watercolour. The paper looks to be a laid with 1-2mm separation and chain separation of about 20mm. There is no seal or signature. mid love to know if it is...
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Help identifying this print please
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has anyone ever seen this print from Utagawa Kunisada?
Posted by: NickTeerI know it is a print of the Actor Arashi Kichisaburō, it kinda looks unfinished and I have not found any other print like that, so I was wondering if someone knows a bit...
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Question about the print by Kunisada 2
Posted by: 14141I can’t find any information about this print on internet , according to the different color and title, maybe the last print earlier than other 3 prints?Whatever I want to get more information...
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Help identify this print please
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identification of print, central part of a triptych
Posted by: camonsCould someone help with information about the following print. It is the central part of a triptych. https://data.ukiyo-e.org/uploads/images/2e337b13-4f6b-45e2-9c49-7fe21ae9ea17.jpg
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Posted by: doornrDear all, again, I need your help to identify maker, title and age of this print. I appreciate all the help regards
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What auction records can—and cannot—tell us about a Great Wave impression
Posted by: UkiyoePrintNotes714I have been trying to separate two very different questions that often get collapsed into one: “What is the auction record for this design?” and “What kind of impression is the print in front...
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Help identifying print obtained 1950s
Posted by: KirstenTThis is a fairly large (maybe 3'x1'?) print that my Dad received as a gift around 1954. He was stationed near Sendai at the end of the Korean War, and was...
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Want to indentify artist of this print. Can’t find it anywhere.
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Help with identifying artist, signature and seal: Hawk on Plum Tree scroll
Posted by: MichaelPHello, I would like to ask for your help with identifying the artist of a Japanese hanging scroll. I am a private owner and unfortunately, I am unable to read the signature or the seal. The...
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- Posted by: bougieukiyo
Hi! Th Tokyo Metropolitan Library shows the Kuniyoshi 0753-C006 titled 春のにぎハひ at https://archive.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/da/detail?tilcod=0000000003-00049114 One can trust it is not an "actors off scene" piece since the rightmost actor is obviously a servant. There is also the Kunisada...
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The original artwork for Utagawa Hiroshige’s “The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō”
Posted by: Sakai MasashiMy research focuses on Shiba Kōkan, a painter and writer active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Many of the compositions in Utagawa Hiroshige’s "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō" series bear...
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- Posted by: Horst
Say thank you! This forum is slowly but surely heading towards having no future. A) Most people with questions likely turn to so-called AI (and receive answers that are more or less correct; unless the questions...
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- Posted by: jmpoux33
Bonjour à tous, j'ai besoin de votre aide pour identifier cette estampe. Pourriez-vous m'indiquer le nom de l'artiste, la date et le titre ? Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
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Posted by: doornrDear all, as usual I need anybody's help again by identifying this print. Please, makes, date and title Thanks again for your help
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- Posted by: bougieukiyo
Hi ! What is the symbol on the clothes of Ichikawa Ebizô V as Yamaguchi Kurojirô in Gion Sairei Shinkôki,1840 at the Nakamura;Izumiya Ichibei Is it a kanji ? Is it an animal ? I found prints...
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- Posted by: JamesSono
Can anyone help me identify this print? I know nothing about it except that it was given to a relative after WWII and I inherited it. Thanks!
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