# Courtesan Reading a Letter, in Ukiyo-e

Ishikawa Toyonobu designed this in about 1745, aged about 29. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1745
- Medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban, urushi-e
- Dimensions: 50.6 × 23 cm (19 3/4 × 9 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.244
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Ishikawa Toyonobu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/ishikawa-toyonobu), Japanese, 1711–1785

2 works in the collection.

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