Woman with bolts of fabric

Category

Library Item

Item no

330

Title

Woman with bolts of fabric

Description

A woman is shown holding several bolts of fabric, as if displaying a range of designs to a customer. To her left stand piles of wrapped fabric. She may be a fabric merchant. Behind her, a low writing table is visible. The green fabric overflowing from a wooden box, at the bottom of the sheet, is decorated with the Japanese character meaning 'great' or 'big' (dai). This could be the crest of a particular textile wholesaler.

Artist / maker

Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Date

1849

Size

37 x 24.5 cm.

Type

Wood cut

Location

Art and Design Library

The following information appears on the print:

Signed: Toyokuni ga
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Censor's Seal: Fukushima and Muramatsu (1847 - 1850)

This is one of a set of 50 prints donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.

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