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Seeing a Performance by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

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Seeing a Performance

Seeing a Performance

Kitagawa Utamaro

1789

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 9 in. (22.9 cm); W. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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