Block printing: Torii Kiyonaga [023]

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Title Block printing: Torii Kiyonaga [023]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 62, Special Lecture Japanese Prints, 40
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1949
Subject Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Art--Photographs; Bodies of water--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Clothing and dress
Keywords Bijinga
Description Photograph of a block print by Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815)
Caption on Slide Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752-1815), hand-colored, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from 1949 slide. Hand-colored. Note: "Torii Kiyonaga, original name Sekiguchi Shinsuke (born 1752, Sagami Province, Japan - died June 28, 1815, Edo [Tokyo]), one of the most important Japanese artists of the Ukiyo-e movement (paintings and wood-block prints of the "floating world")...Kiyonaga concentrated on the depiction of famous beauties...Women in his prints were tall and stately, drawn with elegantly graceful lines in a realistic style."--Encyclopædia Britannica online. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Kiyonaga Hand Colored Slide Japan"
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6417f21
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340456
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6417f21