Manchu Official, Peking

 

Elizabeth Keith

  1887 - 1956 (biography)

1925  

color woodcut 

17 13/16 x 12 3/8" image size 

pencil, lower right image 

75, only around 40 known impressions 

titled in pencil on verso with "(2) / 30.00" 

Miles 19 

antique-white laid Japanese hosho 

published 

Watanabe 

LEAR104 

SOLD

The Miles catalogue raisonne notes: "Reprinted through 1936. A portrait of a court nobleman. Edition 75, but only 40 known to have been printed." One of Keith's largest images, with bright colors in the elaborate gown. This impression is titled by the artist in pencil on the verso.