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Subject:Request help identifying woodblock artist
Posted By: Roger Sun, Apr 25, 2021 IP: 2600:100e:b0d0:bd24:

Greetings, here’s a nice Japanese wood block. I would greatly appreciate any help identifying the artist of this piece. I think it’s quite old. Additionally I’ve added a photo of the back which has some text in Japanese. Thank you so much for looking!







Subject:Re: Request help identifying woodblock artist
Posted By: I.Nagy Mon, Apr 26, 2021

Signature on the painting,
法橋 月岡雪鼎戯冩 - Painted as play by Hōkyō Tsukioka Settei
Illegible seals

Tsukioka Settei 月岡雪鼎 1710-1787
Ukiyo-e artist.
Hōkyō (Bridge of Law) was a Buddhist title given to painters during the Edo period.

According to the vignette on the back the title of
print is 美人弄鞠 - Beauty playing with a ball -

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Request help identifying woodblock artist
Posted By: Roger Tue, Apr 27, 2021

Thank you I.Nagy! As always, you are the best! Cheers!

Subject:Re: Request help identifying woodblock artist
Posted By: Guy Mon, Apr 26, 2021

This is a reproduction of Japanese scroll painting from the 1770s-1780s by the ukiyo-e artist Tsukioka Settei (月岡雪鼎, b.1710 or 1726, d.1786).
Settei worked in Osaka.

Guy.

Subject:Re: Request help identifying woodblock artist
Posted By: Roger Tue, Apr 27, 2021

Thanks much Guy!


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