Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(Japanese, 1798 - 1861) - Title
- Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorō III as the Cat Witch of Okabe
- Date
- 1847
- Material & Process
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 368 x 740 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of Abigail Van Vleck
- Inventory No.
- 1984.1111a-c
- Classification
- Prints
- Location
- Japan
Related
By 1943, 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]
- Paget, Rhiannon. "Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art." Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2023. pp. 120-121
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 264
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