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The Owada Eel Shop
The Owada Eel Shop
Public domain: Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

The Owada Eel Shop

Artist/Culture (1770-1820)
DateHare year 1807
Mediummulticolored woodblock print; triptych
Dimensions36.8 x 77.3 cm (14 1/2 x 30 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.135
DescriptionInterior of a large eating-house. At the right a woman stands beside a pil of baskets filled with eels. In back of her a man cuts up one fish on a table. At the left a woman is broiling slices on a long rack laid over a fire, and a woman who appears to be the propietor is making our bills to be presented to guests. Waitresses pass to and fro
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