UTAMARO: oban tate-e (38 x 25.7 cm.); a half length portrait of a beauty and her admirer, who is holding a pipe and a fan, from the series Tosei kobutsu hakkei "Eight views of today's favorite things", subtitled Hanashizuki "a person who likes to chat", light grey ground, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Izumiya Ichibei- very good impression, slightly faded and soiled toward edges, worming restored especially along top and right edges, several small stains