Lot Essay
Another impression, formerly in Harmsworth Collection, is illustrated in Helen C. Gunsaulus, The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints, The Art Institute of Chicago, p.212
Details
TOYONOBU (1711-85), dai oban tate-e, benizuri-e, 44.2 x 28.1 cm., a courtesan and a girl playing a game of hanetsuki (battledore and shuttlecock) by a flowering plum tree, a poem in the centre, signed Tanjodo Ishikawa Shuha Toyonobu zu, sealed Ishikawa uji and Toyonobu, published by Hosendo Maruya, good impression and colour, slightly foxed