
Lot Closed
December 16, 02:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790)
On the Street in the Yoshiwara
Edo period, 18th century
woodblock print, No. 6 from the series Poems of the Male and Female Mane'emon (Haikai meoto Mane'emon), unsigned, early 1770s
Horizontal chuban: 9 x 26 cm., 7½ x 10¼ in.
This print is from a series of twenty-four shunga prints. A similar impression to the current lot is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 11.2089, go to: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/202004
A different impression is in the same collection as above, accession no. 21.4645, go to: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/232322/on-the-street-in-the-yoshiwara-no-6-from-the-series-poems?ctx=19c196a4-ab7b-43d9-ae1a-5af21af1033a&idx=2