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Night Rain at the Stroke of Midnight, from the series Eight Views of Recurrent Events in the Yoshiwara

Night Rain at the Stroke of Midnight, from the series Eight Views of Recurrent Events in the Yoshiwara

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Kikugawa Eizan

Artist/Maker
Kikugawa Eizan
(Japanese, 1787 - 1867)
Title
Night Rain at the Stroke of Midnight, from the series Eight Views of Recurrent Events in the Yoshiwara
Date
around 1810
Material & Process
Color woodcut
Dimensions
366 x 261 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Inventory No.
1980.672
Classification
Prints
Location
Japan

Related

Collection of Mrs. J. Harriot Goodell (New Haven, CT); 1916, purchased by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 13

  • Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016

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