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A Courtesan

Kitagawa Utamaro

Title	A Courtesan
Artist	Kitagawa Utamaro
Date	1807 19th century
Medium	Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Classification	Prints
Origin	Japan Japan
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 1930
Rights	Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose.

Subjects: Botanical illustration Entomological plates

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Dated to 1807. Explore the wider set of works from the 19th century held in the archive.

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Recorded origin: Japan. Browse more public-domain art from Japan.

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Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.

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