About This Print
A pheasant is fixated on, and appears ready to attack, a snake in this 2-page print, the 17th double plate in the second volume of Bairei Hyakuchō Gafu, Zokuhen (Bairei's Picture Album of One Hundred Birds, Continuing).
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #498 |
| Title/Description | Reeve's Pheasant (onagakiji) from Bairei Hyakuchō Gafu Zokuhen, chi (Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds: Continuing, Earth [vol. 2]) 江南雉（ヲナガキジ） 雉楳嶺百鳥画譜 續編 地 |
| Artist | Kōno Bairei (1844-1895) |
| Signature | unsigned |
| Seal |  |
| Publication Date | 1884 |
| Edition | likely original edition from the book |
| Publisher | Ōkura Magobei 大倉孫兵衛 (Kin'eido; 1843-1921) [Marks: pub. ref. 627] |
| Printer | |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - joined at center after removal from book |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | kachō-ga from gafu |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 9 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (23.8 x 30.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 8 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (21.3 x 29.5 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries Identifier JIB4_1_023 (holding is all three volumes of Barei Hyakuchō Gafu, Zokuhen); National Library of Australia JAP 721.9 B14 (holding is all three volumes of Barei Hyakuchō Gafu, Zokuhen); Smithsonian Libraries Freer Sackler Muller Collection ND1059.K6865 A6151 1884; The British Museum 1950,1014,0.6.1-3 (holding is all three volumes of Barei Hyakuchō Gafu, Zokuhen) |
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