The Bad Tiger Cub

Artist Unknown (Japanese, 18th century)

c. 1730

Medium

Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban yoko-e, urushi-e

Classification

Print

Dimensions

15.9 × 31.2 cm (6 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)

Culture

Japan

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ukiyo-e: pictures of the floating world
• Prints
• Animals
• 1700s
• Japan
• Brown