Girl Reading Letter while Mother and Child Gaze at Sparrows

Girl Reading Letter while Mother and Child Gaze at Sparrows

Kitagawa Utamaro

1786 - 1796 Woodblock print Print

1930.407

Art Institute of Chicago

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