Woman Standing in Front of a Snow Covered Background

Print

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Drexel Founding Collection

#2061, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2023: Recto

Name/Title

Woman Standing in Front of a Snow Covered Background

Entry/Object ID

2061

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

James W. Paul, Jr., Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 1969 Credit Line: Gift of James W. Paul, Jr. to the Drexel Library then transferred to The Drexel Collection Means of Accession: Transfer Source: James W. Paul, Jr. Donated to the Drexel Library 1906-1907

Made/Created

Artist

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Date made

1815

Place

Country

Japan

Continent

Asia

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

H, W: 14 3/4x9 5/8 in; H, W: 37.5x24.5 cm

Height

14-3/4 in

Width

9-5/8 in

Height

37.5 cm

Width

24.5 cm

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Curator Pick of the Month

Label

For the month of December, The Drexel Collection has chosen Woman Standing in Front of Snow Covered Background by Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), a woodblock print created from Japan. Woodblock prints came to be the expression of the urban culture and emerging middle class of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). Edo, the capital of Japan, became the epicenter of this artistic phenomenon that acquired great popularity in connection with the flourishing practice of Kabuki theatre. The Drexel Collection houses nearly 200 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints.