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The Lady Tomimoto Toyohina Reading a Letter by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

The Lady Tomimoto Toyohina Reading a Letter

The Lady Tomimoto Toyohina Reading a Letter

Kitagawa Utamaro

1790

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm); W. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)
Genre: Prints
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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