Chinese Lady (aka: Chinese Lady, Peking)

 

Elizabeth Keith

  1887 - 1956 (biography)

1934  

color woodcut with silver mica 

13 5/16 x 8 9/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

Rare, fewer than 25 

titled in pencil on verso with "(7)" 

Miles 27 

antique-white laid Japanese hosho 

published 

Watanabe 

LEAR102 

SOLD

A very rare woodcut by Keith, the only print on which she used silver mica throughout the design of the dress. Miles notes: "A Doshisha Girl. A very rare portrait published in an edtion of less than 25, with silver mica effects unique in the work of the artist. Probably intended as a gift to the sitter's family. Never reprinted."

This impression is titled by the artist in pencil on the verso.

Doshisha University, also referred to as Dodai, is a private university in Kyoto City, Japan. Established in 1875, it is one of the oldest private institutions of higher learning in Japan, and has approximately 30,000 students enrolled on four different campuses in Kyoto. It is one of the Japanese "Global 30" universities and one of the "Kankandoritsu," a group of the four leading private universities in the Kansai region of western Japan.

Doshisha was founded by Joseph Hardy Neesima as "Doshisha English School", and in 1920 it was granted university status. The university now encompasses 14 faculties and 16 graduate schools with numerous affiliated institutions including Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.