Galerie Christian Collin

(1839 - 1892)

No. 816: a performance by the amazing old midget who was 21 inches tall

Woodblock print

1876

Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun), published by Kumagaya Shôshichi. 

The Yūbin hōchi shinbun was a newspaper founded in 1873. Yoshitoshi was hired in 1875 to illustrate a wide variety of subjects like political, crime, public interest and ghost stories...

Sheet: ôban (372 x 250 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Condition: in generally good condition.