Picture of a Dutch Woman Holding a Cup and Showing Affection for Her Child, from the series Life Sketches of Foreigners

15 June 1935, gifted by Judson D. Metzgar (Los Angeles, CA and Moline, IL) to Mrs. Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Van Vleck’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 191, no. 180
• Newland, Amy Reigle ed. "The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints." Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006. p. 267, no. 201
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 277

• Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/2/2009–11/26/2009
• Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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