id:			118833
accession number:	1940.1031
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1031
updated:		2025-02-09 00:30:32.588000

Woman Holding a Fan (from the series Ten Aspects of the Physiognomy of Women), c. 1793. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806). Color woodblock print; sheet: 34.6 x 24.2 cm (13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.1031

title:				Woman Holding a Fan (from the series Ten Aspects of the Physiognomy of Women)
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creation date:			c. 1793
creation date earliest:		1788
creation date latest:		1798
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creditline:			Bequest of James Parmelee
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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: 34.6 x 24.2 cm (13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Signature: Sōmi Utamaro ga (Utamaro, the physiognomist).
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	inscription:	Publisher: Tsutaya Jūzaburo (emblem). 
Censorship Seal: kiwame.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shibui 49.2.3.
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	Milliken, William M., Henry S. Francis, Howard Hollis, Gertrude Underhill, Silvia A. Wunderlich, and Nell G. Sill. “The Bequest of James Parmelee.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15–31.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140904

	Kampen-O’Riley, Michael. <em>Art beyond the West: The Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas</em>. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; H.N. Abrams, 2002.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 5.31
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	Kampen-O’Riley, Michael. <em>Art beyond the West</em>. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
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