Unidentified mid-19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita-e/Gako Engravings -Jacob De Meurs

-Jacob De Meurs

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Unidentified mid-19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita-e/Gako Engravings -Jacob De MeursUnidentified mid 19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita e Gako Anonymous Utagawa school 32 x 23m Drawn in Chinese Ink on thin paper with red seal to bottom of page Clean imaging but creasing to the page and some smudges and marks In this preparatory drawing two actors are shown as Samurai one holding a sword and bow, and the other a fan. The image and artist are unidentified, but the style is consistent with being by one of the popular