KUNIYOSHI   (1797-1861). Ueshima Monya. (Sold)

KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861). Ueshima Monya. (Sold)

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Subject: Ueshima Monya, son of an Akao retainer, raising sleeve to chin.
Series: Seichū gishin den (Stories of the faithful hearts).
Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga and seal kiri.
Date: 1847-8. Censors seals Hama and Kinugasa.
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke.
Size: Oban tate-e, 36,4x24,7 cm
Medium: Woodblock color print.
Literature: Basil W. Robinson. Kuniyoshi The Warrior-Prints. Oxford, 1982, S56, no. 7. David R. Weinberg. Kuniyoshi. The faithful samurai. Amsterdam, 2000, no. II-7.
Conditions: Very good impression, colour and conditions.
Item no: C 558
Status: Sold