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Japanese Children of Yesterday (aka: Two Little Girls Playing Ball) by Elizabeth Keith

Japanese Children of Yesterday (aka: Two Little Girls Playing Ball) by Elizabeth Keith

Japanese Children of Yesterday (aka: Two Little Girls Playing Ball)

Elizabeth Keith

Title

Japanese Children of Yesterday (aka: Two Little Girls Playing Ball)

 
Artist

Elizabeth Keith

  1887 - 1956 (biography)
Year
1925  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
13 9/16 x 11 1/4" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right image 
Edition Size
100, edition not completed 
Annotations
titled in pencil on verso with "(36)" 
Reference
Miles 102 
Paper
antique-white laid Japanese hosho 
State
published 
Publisher
Watanabe 
Inventory ID
LEAR115 
Price
SOLD
Description
The Miles catalogue raisonne notes: "Reprinted through 1936 by artisans, Watanabe is supposed to have stopped printing this image when anti-foreighn feeling made sales to increasingly scarce Westerners unlikely." This impression is titled by the artist in pencil on the verso.