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Morning Glories and Bird

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical Japanese woodblock print on beige paper, featuring a bird perched on a branch with green leaves and pink morning glories, by Utagawa Hiroshige. The bird has a white and brown body with blue wings and a red beak and legs. The flowers have five-petaled pink trumpets with white interiors. The artist's signature is written vertically in black ink near the bottom-right corner.

Artwork details

Date:
1840–50
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
240 × 623 px
Museum record:
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