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Mallard Duck and Snow-covered Reeds

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical rectangular artwork with a beige background. A bird with a black head, white neck, and brown and black wings and tail is flying down towards the right, surrounded by snow. The bird has a yellow beak and a yellow area around its eye. The bird's feathers on its body are textured to look like scales. There are several reeds in the artwork, some with snow on them. The background is a blue sky with snowflakes falling. There is a red seal at the bottom right of the artwork and Japanese writing on the top left. A gray and black color scale is on the right side.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1832
Medium
Woodblock print
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
354 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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