id:			103265
accession number:	1921.337
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.337
updated:		2025-02-08 23:09:31.400000

Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women, c. 1798. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 38.8 x 25.2 cm (15 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1921.337

title:				Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women
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creation date:			c. 1798
creation date earliest:		1793
creation date latest:		1803
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creditline:			Gift from J. H. Wade
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 38.8 x 25.2 cm (15 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's signature: Utamaro hitsu.
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	inscription:	Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Waka)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1934-09-05T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).

	title:		Ways of Drawing Faces
	opening date:   1944-10-01T04:00:00
	<i>Ways of Drawing Faces</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1944-January 31, 1945).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正 [1853–1906], Paris, France
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	Julio E. van Canegham, Paris, France, consigned to Walpole Galleries for sale
	date: ?–1921
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	(Walpole Galleries, New York, NY, March 3, 1921 sale, "Rare and valuable Japanese color prints: including the collection of Julio E. van Caneghem of Paris," lot 259)
	date: March 3, 1921
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	(Yamanaka & Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1921
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1921–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 54
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n56

	Milliken, William Mathewson, Theodore Sizer, Rossiter Howard, and Frederick Allen Whiting. “In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 13, no. 4 (April 1926): 63–91.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 79
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136919

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 67
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n71

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