Pygmy Island

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Pygmy Island

1863

Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active c. 1850-70)

The text on this print describes the three pygmies in the image: Nintoku, age forty-five, his wife Nojo, age thirty-eight, and their son Settoku, age five. Supposedly their handprints are shown "full size."

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Object Details

Title:

Pygmy Island

Date:

1863

Artist:

Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active c. 1850-70)

Medium:

Color woodcut

Dimensions:

Sheet (Ōban tate-e): 14 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (36.5 × 24.4 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund and with funds contributed by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner, Dr. Emanuel Wolff, the Derald and Janet Ruttenberg Foundation, Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr., and David P. Willis, 1968

Accession Number:

1968-165-56

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Edo Period (1615-1868)

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