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Drying Clothes (Monohoshi) by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

Drying Clothes (Monohoshi)

Drying Clothes (Monohoshi)

Kitagawa Utamaro

1785–1795

Medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych
Dimensions: Right sheet: 36.7 × 25.6 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.); Center sheet: 36.7 × 26.2 cm (14 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.); Left sheet: 36.1 × 25.1 cm (14 1/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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