VARIOUS WOODBLOCK ARTISTS

Description:

Japan, Edo period
37,5 - 38 cm x 26 - 26 cm
Four ôban tate-e, colour woodblock prints. 1) Torii Kiyonaga (1752 - 1815): Bijinga. Series: ''Hinagata Wakana no Hatsumoyo'' (A Pattern Book of Fresh Model Designs). Sheet: A courtesan with her attendants. Signed: Kiyonaga ga, Publisher: Nishimura Eijudo. 2) Katsukawa Shunsen (1762-1830): Bijinga. Standing beauty holding a pipe. 3) Gokyô (Disciple of Eishi): Bijinga. Courtesan parading with her attendants. Publisher: Iwatoya Kisaburo. Censor seal: Kiwame. Date. c. 1800. 4) Ikeda Eisen (1790 - 1848) Bijinga: Beauty with parasol. Signed: Keisei Eisen ga. Censor seal: Kiwame.
Traces of age, partly faded colours, slightly stained and partly damaged, one with tear, some backed and trimmed, mounted in passepartout