Bamboo and Sparrows
Artist
Anonymous
Date17th century
GeographyJapan
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionsgeneral: 71 × 70 in. (180.3 × 177.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Anna Rice Cooke, 1933 (3875)
Object number3875
DescriptionOne of seven panels painted in sumi-e on paper. Wash and line painting on grey ground. Three upright bamboo stalks, two of which are dark and one delicate, to left of center. Sparse foliage. One slender, bending branch grows from base to make a vertical curving line at right of center. Framed in black.On View
Not on viewCollections
Katsushika Hokusai / Katsukawa Shunrō / Katsushika Taito / Kakō
Early 1830s
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