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Towing a Barge in the Snow, from the album The Silver World, 1790. Woodblock print; oban.
Woodblock print; oban · 38.6 × 26.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Towing a Barge in the Snow, from the album The Silver World
- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Woodblock print; oban
- Dimensions
- 38.6 × 26.1 cm (15 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.