KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (35.9 x 26.1 cm.); an okubi-e portrait of a beauty playing with a doll, from the series Meisho fukei bijin juniso "Twelve physiognomies of women and views of famous places", signed Utamaro hitsu- good impression, slightly faded, vertical fold along right edge, minute holes restored along left edge, several short creases, trimmed below, laid down on paper

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KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (35.9 x 26.1 cm.); an okubi-e portrait of a beauty playing with a doll, from the series Meisho fukei bijin juniso "Twelve physiognomies of women and views of famous places", signed Utamaro hitsu- good impression, slightly faded, vertical fold along right edge, minute holes restored along left edge, several short creases, trimmed below, laid down on paper

Lot Essay

From a series of twelve prints of beauties, all now known. The catalogue note for the example in the collection of the Rijksmuseum (Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints Part II, 1979, no. 82) postulates that the twelve may have been released as a set introduced by a title page naming the publisher as none of the prints bears a publisher's mark.