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Photographed September 2009
A Bird Clinging To A Drooping Branch Of A Tree
Photographed September 2009
Public domain: Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

A Bird Clinging To A Drooping Branch Of A Tree

Artist/Culture (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Date1770-1806
Mediumwoodblock print
Dimensions25.4 x 17.2 cm (10 x 6 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineJohn Chandler Bancroft Collection
Object number1901.59.2404
DescriptionSince this print bears the name of Utamaro with "fude" appended, they are catalogued under his name, but they are not from his hand. What purports to be his signature is a modern addition.
On View
Not on view
Photographed September 2009
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
1770-1806
Photographed September 2009
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
1770-1806
A Shrub in Full Bloom and a Bird on a Rock Beneath It
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
1770-1806
Celebrating Ebisuko
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
about 1780s
Woman Holding a Round Fan
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
about 1793
Reference Image - Not for Reproduction
Northern Italian
portions 1500s, assembled and decorated in 1800s
Feeding the Caged Bird
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
1798
Photographed May, 2010
Kitagawa Utamaro I 喜多川 歌麿
about 1797
Reference Image - Not for Reproduction
Chinese
960–1279, late Song Dynasty (1200s–1300s)
Iwai Hanshiro V Announcing His Return to the Edo Stage (Kudari zatsuki kojo)
Utagawa Kunisada I 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III 三代 豊国)
late 1822