Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard 'Femme Se Retroussant'

'Femme Se Retroussant'

the scene is old Fishmongers Hall

once the chapel belonging to Southampton House

Entomological studies of a six-spotted shieldbug

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard 'Femme Se Retroussant'Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist, late18th or early 19th century (1956). Self portrait detail from a woodcut book showing Utamaro (1753 1806) painting a phoenix on the walls of a Yoshiwara house. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese artists of woodblock prints. From the British Museum, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union,