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American Woman Playing an Accordion (Amerika nyokan akodeon wo hiku no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)", 1860. Color woodblock print; oban.
Color woodblock print; oban · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- American Woman Playing an Accordion (Amerika nyokan akodeon wo hiku no zu), from the series "Foreigners Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu)"
- Artist
- Utagawa Sadahide Japanese, 1807-1873
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Credit line
- Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
- 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.