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A Temple Kitchen, Diamond Mountains, North Korea by Elizabeth Keith

A Temple Kitchen, Diamond Mountains, North Korea by Elizabeth Keith

A Temple Kitchen, Diamond Mountains, North Korea

Elizabeth Keith

Title

A Temple Kitchen, Diamond Mountains, North Korea

 
Artist

Elizabeth Keith

  1887 - 1956 (biography)
Year
1920  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
14 5/8 x 10 1/2" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right image; initial seal in circle in lower right image 
Edition Size
Rare! edition not known 
Annotations
titled in pencil on verso with "(5)" and dated 1925 
Reference
Miles 43 
Paper
antique-white laid Japanese hosho 
State
published 
Publisher
Watanabe 
Inventory ID
LEAR107 
Price
SOLD
Description

The edition size for this image is not known. It is probable blocks lost in the 1923 earthquake that destroyed Tokyo and Watanabe's print shop.

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

From Miles: "An interior in one of the famous temples of the Diamond Mountains. here we see the cook and his helper busy at the huge set poets of boiling rice. From the stove, flues radiate under the flooring of various rooms of the building, the universal heating system of Korea. A picture of the god of the kitchen hangs on the wall above the stove."