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Collections

Utagawa Hiroshige
Selling Armor to a Scrap Metal Merchant1854, 8th month

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print with three figures: a heavyset seated man in plaid robes facing two samurai in orange-and-blue armor, with Japanese text cartouche at upper right

Utagawa Hiroshige, Selling Armor to a Scrap Metal Merchant, 1854, 8th month, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Joan Elizabeth Tanney Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Utagawa Hiroshige
Title
Selling Armor to a Scrap Metal Merchant
Date Made
1854, 8th month
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Color woodblock print; chūban
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (17.15 × 24.77 cm) Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (17.15 × 24.77 cm)
Credit Line
The Joan Elizabeth Tanney Bequest
Accession Number
M.2006.136.334
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art