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Album of Twenty Half-Length Portraits of Actors in Roles

Shunbaisai Hokuei 春梅斎北英

1830s

Medium

Folding album; ink and color on paper

Tags

Actors Portraits

Dimensions

Image: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (19.1 x 13.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011

Classification

Prints

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

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1829 –1837 • Japanese

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