The Wrath of Raigo Ajari, Rat from the series The Twelve Animals of the Zodiac Matched with Brave Warriors

29 April 1927, purchased from the Walpole Galleries (New York, NY) by Anna Van Vleck; 1927, gifted by Anna to her brother, Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’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. 130, no. 103
• Bennett, James. The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections. Adelaide, Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009. p. 212
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 261

• Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/2/2009–11/26/2009
• Chōnin: Japanese Art from the Elvehjem Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/1/2001–11/11/2001

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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