# Slak

- By: Suzuki Shônen
- Date: 1859 - 1918
- Medium: paper, wood (plant material), silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 100 cm x width 50.2 cm
- Credit line: Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-RAK-2015-2-10--45f76c5fd7572eb497475b3241f567ab)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/5203667a5cdc368520acad37b181d9d7.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.