Musical instruments – Varshavsky Collection

Opal snuff bottle carved with a beauty playing Guqin
Utagawa Toyokuni I. Seventh lunar month, from the series ‘Fashionable Twelve Months’ / Fan print, 1822.
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III). Beauty playing the shamisen beneath a mosquito net / Fan print, c. 1832.
Félicien Rops. L’ariette; etching, n.d. (two prints).
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III). Courtesan playing a kokyū, from the series ‘Assortments of Beauties Accomplishments’, 1829.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Young woman with a shamisen, from the series Collection of charming music (Enkyoku zoroi) / Fan print, 1853.