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American Woman Playing a Concertina, from the series Life Drawings of People from Foreign Nations

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a woman and a man standing side by side. The woman wears a blue floral-patterned jacket over a long, pleated beige skirt with red trim at the bottom. She has on a red and blue hat with a veil covering her hair. She holds a green fan in her left hand. A black and white dog sits at her feet, looking up at her. The man wears a brown hat, a blue jacket with gold buttons and a beige vest and shirt. The background is a muted green color with a dark blue border at the top. There are several lines of Japanese text on the image.

Artwork details

Date:
1860
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
439 × 625 px
Museum record:
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