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Portrait of Minamoto no Muneyuki, from the “Fujifusa Version of the Handscroll of Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals”

Emperor Godaigo (d. 1339)

early 15th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Ariwara Narihira, from the “Fujifusa Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals (Fujifusa-bon Sanjūrokkasen emaki)

Unrecorded maker

first half 15th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Portrait of Kiyohara no Motosuke, from the “Tameshige Version of Poetry Competition of Poets of Different Eras” (Tameshige-bon Jidai fudō uta-awase)

Unidentified artist

15th century · Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

The Poet Koōgimi, from the “Fujifusa Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals (Fujifusa-bon Sanjūrokkasen emaki)l

Unrecorded maker

15th century · Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Portrait of Sen no Rikyū with his Death Poem

Unidentified artist

early 17th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Archbishop Henjō (Sōjō Henjō zu), from the Dōon Version of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

Iwasa Matabei 岩佐又兵衛 (d. 1650)

1620s–1630s · Hanging scroll: ink, color, gold and silver on paper

Portrait of a Man

Jacob Backer (d. 1651)

ca. 1645–50 · Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk (verso)

Standing Courtesan

Tōsendō Rifū (d. 1740)

ca. 1720 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Ono no Komachi: Number Two (Sono ni), from the series Stylish Parodies of the Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū yatsushi rokkasen)

Chōbunsai Eishi (d. 1829)

1790s · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2

Rudolph Ackermann, London (d. 1832)

July–December 1809 · Illustrations: hand-colored etching, engraving, woodcut, and textile samples

Album containing prints clipped from American and British periodicals

Illman and Sons (d. 1900)

1815–60 · Hand-colored etching, engraving, lithograph, mezzotint

Examples of the Architecture of Venice, Selected and Drawn to Measurement from the Edifices (extra illustrated)

John Ruskin (d. 1900)

1851–83 · Mezzotint, etching, aquatint, engraving and lithographs with tint stones, numbered plates on chine collé