My great grandfather found this in the trash over a 100 years ago that is what my grandmother knows it’s about 5 pounds and very different I don’t anything else about it
This easel has been in my life as long as I can remember, and I’m approaching 70! The paper scroll still works from beginning to end, with only one small hole in the paper.
An offset lithograph of a 1794 Ukiyo-e woodblock print titled The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Shigenoi, the Wet Nurse by Toshusai Sharaku. The print features the actor in a white and pink dress against a blue background. There is a signature and chopmark printer in-plate to the lower left. Presented behind glass in a beveled frame with brass corner brackets; ready to hang.
