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Snail

Suzuki Shônen · 1859 - 1918 · paper; wood (plant material); silk

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

With energetic brushwork Suzuki Shonen enlarged the snail until it filled the picture plane. This bravura is also expressed in the enormous signature, and emphasized again in the text of the seal: ‘one sheet out of a thousand, painted in a one day.’ Shonen would have been a young man when he accomplished this tour de force.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

hanging scroll molluscs: snail

Credit lineSlak. 1859 - 1918. Suzuki Shônen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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