Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard In the lower margin is

In the lower margin is a vignette of Bridewell Palace in 1540

1782 (1785)

here termed 'oxygenized carbon'

the scene is old Fishmongers Hall

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard In the lower margin isKitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist, late18th or early 19th century (1956). Self portrait detail from a woodcut book showing Utamaro (1753 1806) painting a phoenix on the walls of a Yoshiwara house. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese artists of woodblock prints. From the British Museum, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union,