Butterfly (Chō); Dragonfly (Kagerō or Tonbo), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

1788

Current Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Medium: Page from woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 26.7 × 18.4 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-209661

Provenance

Rogers Fund, 1918

Registry history

1788 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — prints

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