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Throwing out the Ox Tongue Rice Cakes at the Watergate Tadpole Shrine

Throwing out the Ox Tongue Rice Cakes at the Watergate Tadpole Shrine

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Hishikawa Hirotaka

Artist/Maker
Hishikawa Hirotaka
(Japanese)
Title
Throwing out the Ox Tongue Rice Cakes at the Watergate Tadpole Shrine
Date
around 1830
Material & Process
Color woodcut
Dimensions
235 x 255 mm image
Credit
Bequest of Abigail Van Vleck
Inventory No.
1984.1025
Classification
Prints
Location
Japan

Related

By ca.1940, acquired by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI);1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1980, passed through inheritance to John’s wife, Abigail P. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1984, bequeathed 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. 205

  • Summer Breeze: The Fan in Japanese Prints: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/7/2012–9/9/2012

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