Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard In the lower margin is

In the lower margin is a vignette of Bridewell Palace in 1540

the scene is old Fishmongers Hall

Laboratory equipment intended to measure the expansion of fluids when heated

1782 (1785)

here termed 'oxygenized carbon'

Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist Product:Postcard In the lower margin isKitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist, late18th or early 19th century (1956). Self portrait detail from a woodcut book showing Utamaro (1753 1806) painting a phoenix on the walls of a Yoshiwara house. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese artists of woodblock prints. From the British Museum, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union,