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A summer river scene with courtesans and two peasant boys, one with a fishing rod.

1780

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Part of Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Part of Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings Donated by Gillett G. Griffin
This group of Japanese and Chinese prints and drawings was donated by Gillett G. Griffin (1928–2016), curator emeritus of graphic arts, in honor of Dale Roylance. It represents a small portion of the Far Eastern works on paper held by the Graphic Arts division. Also included are several sketchbooks, which were collected together with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings.
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E Row 1/GC063/Box 01/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01139
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Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [1780s]
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Katsukawa, Shunchō, active 1783-1821
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Boys—Japan—18th century—In art
Geishas—Japan—18th century—In art
Peasants—Japan—18th century—In art
Rivers—Japan—In art
Summer—Japan—In art
Fishers—Japan—18th century—In art
Genre painting
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