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Girls Gathering Shells on the Sea-shore

Kitagawa Utamaro
Credit: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914
c. 1790
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
36.8 x 22.9cm
JP1058
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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