Enjoying Cormorant Fishing

Exhibit in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Colors in this work

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada I and Utagawa Kuniteru II
Date: 1852
Holding institution: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Palette: Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #E3A271 · 16%

Lead Type · Gray family · #6A7883 · 16%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #37271F · 12%

Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #714E34 · 12%

Chalk Ground · White family · #F7E6E3 · 11%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #9C6E4B · 7%

Molten Copper · Orange family · #D8662A · 7%

Slate Night · Black family · #272734 · 5%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #7F8E8F · 4%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #D1B097 · 4%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #BA8358 · 4%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #B5A59B · 2%

Graphite Block · Gray family · #485654 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2E3A38 · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #838676 · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #E1D0D8 · <1%

Plaster Rose · Pink family · #CAA5A8 · <1%

Indigo Banner · Blue family · #27436E · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon

11 tags

Animals Both · 97%

Dark birds are visible across the water, and the title explicitly identifies the depicted activity as cormorant fishing.
Nautical Visual · 99%

Several narrow boats carrying people occupy the middle and upper portions of the composition.
Waterscapes Visual · 99%

A broad field of rippling water occupies much of the background and middle distance.
Leisure Both · 93%

The title describes enjoyment of cormorant fishing, while the image presents seated and reclining figures gathered beside the activity in a social setting.

Ukiyo-e Both · 96%

The catalog identifies the work as a Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada I and Utagawa Kuniteru II, while the image shows outlined figures, flat color areas, elaborate textile patterning, and cartouches associated with ukiyo-e prints.

Patterns Visual · 98%

Elaborate repeated patterns are prominent in the figures’ robes, mats, lanterns, and other surfaces.
Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 93%

The image uses saturated and strongly contrasting orange, blue, red, cream, and black areas.

Prints Both · 99%

The image visibly consists of a multi-sheet printed composition, and the catalog explicitly classifies the object as a Japanese woodblock print.
Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 99%

The catalog explicitly identifies the object as a Japanese woodblock print.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The work is dated 1852, placing it within the nineteenth century.

Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog describes the object as a Japanese woodblock print and identifies the artists as Utagawa Kunisada I and Utagawa Kuniteru II.

Utagawa Kunisada / Utagawa Kuniteru II. Own workAnother copy of these prints at the Museum of Fine Art Boston

Original image ↗ 5,188 × 2,653 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed