© British Museum
Chinese colour prints
Artist: Artist not known
Location: British Museum
Date: 17th Century
Materials: colour prints
Grant:
Amount Paid: £64 (Total: £64)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 840 (1932)
Provenance:
Maj G R V Hume Gore
Description:
5 elaborate woodcuts of fruit, flowers and still lifes printed in as many as 22 colours to add to a set already in the British Museum as part of the Sloane Collection. The set already in the museum had, up to 1907, been in a large volume lettered on the back E. MSS Kaempfer, presumably bought by Kaempfer in Japan before 1692, when he left the East.
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