Mother Suckling Her Baby

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) Mother Suckling Her Baby Color woodcut: a young woman suckling her baby beside a lacquered mirror stand, the glass of the mirror applied with silver mica and the stand burnished, the woman's robe with embossed pattern, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression, faded, yellow ground now faint, minor stains, backed oban tate-e: 14 7/8 x 10½in. (37.8 x 25.6cm.)