Perspective Picture of a Kabuki Theater (Uki-e Kabuki shibai no zu)

Provenance

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853–1908), Boston; by descent to his wife, Sidney McCall (1865–1954; born Mary McNeill, also Mary McNeil Fenollosa), Boston, 1908; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; by descent to his sister, Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Perspective Picture of a Kabuki Theater (Uki-e Kabuki shibai no zu)

Utagawa Toyoharu

c. 1776

Accession Number

24393

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban, trimmed

Dimensions

24.8 × 36.6 cm (9 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.); Mat: 50.8 × 71.2 cm (20 × 28 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection