id:			111687
accession number:	1930.216
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.216
updated:		2025-02-08 23:57:00.081000

Cleaning Combs, c. late 1790s. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 38.2 x 25.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.216

title:				Cleaning Combs
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creation date:			c. late 1790s
creation date earliest:		1797
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
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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: 38.2 x 25.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's signature: Utamaro hitsu
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	inscription:	Publisher: Ōmiya Gonkurō (Ōmiya, emblem)
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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:		Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris
	opening date:   2012-10-04T00:00:00
	<i>Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka & Co., sold to Edward L. Whittemore)
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	Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1930
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1930–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard C. “The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 17, no. 4 (April 1930): 64–66.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137291

	Jenkins, Donaldドナルド. ジェンキンス, et. al, and Tobita Shigeo 飛田茂雄, translator. ミネアポリス美術館. ポートランド美術館 [= M<em>inneapolis Institute of Arts, Portland Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>.] Ukiyo-e shūka 浮世絵聚花; 9. Tōkyō: Shō gakukan 小学館, Showa 56 [1981].
	page number: 	Reproduced: colorplate 145
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