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Falcon on a Willow
Koryūsaic. 1780
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The technique here is marked by white lines and areas set against a dark background. Damp paper was placed on a carved wooden block and pressed into the engraved incisions. The paper was then hand colored, the sunken areas remaining white and appearing in reserve against the colored background. The effect is meant to resemble a stone rubbing, a traditional technique in China used to reproduce and preserve images on monuments on paper.
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- Title: Falcon on a Willow
- Creator: Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735–1790)
- Date Created: c. 1780
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 77.5 x 29.8 cm (30 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France, (Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 88), John R. Gaines, (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, May 23-25, 1979, lot 464, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith), The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.363
- Medium: color woodblock print with hand coloring; stonerubbing technique (ishizuri-e)
- Inscriptions: Collector's Seal: Vever
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1985.363
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