Gourd and morning glories
Gourd and morning glories

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Gourd and morning glories,

19th century

Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2015-5597

Information

Title
Gourd and morning glories
Dates

19th century

Medium
Ink and color on paper
Credit Line
Museum Collection
Object Number
2015-5597
Place Made

Japan

Inscription
top right and middle (recto) left of gourd left of red morning glories and under the lowest blue morning glory
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
workshop art, drawings
Subject
sketches

–ca. 1890 Purchased by Allan Marquand(?) 1890-ca. 1892 Allan Marquand, by gift or transfer to the Princeton University Art Museum. Note: 1890 (academic year) purchase likely corresponds to an entry in Allan Marquand’s Day Book, p. 43, that records a purchase of Japanese Drawings for $500.

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