The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 6, 2023

Mother Lifting a Child to a Plum Tree (from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven Year Old Girls of Recent Times)

late 1790s

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print

Sheet: 52.1 x 23.4 cm (20 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1144

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signature: Utamaro hitsu Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Mura)

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977: In the Nature of Materials - Japanese Decorative Arts.

College of Wooster, 1981: Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College.

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1144