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Flatfish, scorpion fish, and shells, from an untitled series of chuban prints, c. 1831. Color woodblock print; chuban.
Color woodblock print; chuban · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Flatfish, scorpion fish, and shells, from an untitled series of chuban prints
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849
- Date
- c. 1831
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.