An Actors' Boating Party on the Sumida River

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An Actors' Boating Party on the Sumida River, c. 1789. Color woodblock print; oban triptych.

Color woodblock print; oban triptych · Right sheet: 36.8 × 25.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: An Actors' Boating Party on the Sumida River
Artist: Torii Kiyonaga Japanese, 1752-1815
Date: c. 1789
Medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Dimensions: Right sheet: 36.8 × 25.1 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.); Center sheet: 36.8 × 25.1 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.); Left sheet: 36.9 × 25.2 cm (14 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1752–1815

Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.