ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU (1711-1785) Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1740ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU (1711-1785)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1740A woodblock print with hand colouring, sumizuri-e kakejiku (hanging scroll) format, depicting a full-length portrait of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a young man-about-town carrying in his right hand a small folding lantern bearing the crest of Sanogawa Ichimatsu, with publisher's mark of Izumiya Ichibei; signed Sojodo Ishikawa Shuha Toyonobu zu with seals Ichikawa uji and Toyonobu above the collector's seal of Henri Vever. 58.5cm x 25cm (23in x 9 7/8in).Provenance:Henri Vever (1854-1942) Collection.Published:Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, vol.1, London, Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1976, p.79, no.65.An extremely rare print, only one other impression is known in the George Mann collection, illustrated by George Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints, Highland Park, Illinois, 2021, p.185, cat. no.23.