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A Tea-house Waitress by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

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A Tea-house Waitress

A Tea-house Waitress

A Tea-house Waitress

Kitagawa Utamaro

1785–1805

Medium: Album of eighty-nine prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 13 in. (33 cm); W. 14 in. (35.6 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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