EISHOSAI CHOKI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1772-EARLY 1800s) Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1793EISHOSAI CHOKI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1772-EARLY 1800s)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1793An oban print of a summer evening depicting a mother and child armed with a fan each and hunting for fireflies along the banks of a pond lined with irises in full bloom, each firefly surrounded by a nimbus of silver mica on a background of dark mica representing the night sky, the woman wearing a starfish-patterned kimono and clutching a cord attached to a small insect cage, her wide black obi (sash) decorated with a floral pattern accentuating the simple kimono, her infant son dressed in a chequered short garment, stamped at the bottom left and right corner with the collector's seal of Henri Vever, published by Tsutaya Juzaburo, signed Choki ga. 36.7cm x 24.2cm (14 7/16in x 9½in).Provenance:Henri Vever (1854-1942) Collection.Only a few fine and comparable impressions are known, see Narazaki Muneshige and Yamaguchi Keisaburo, Ukiyo-e Shuka (Collection of the Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints in Museums), vol.XI (The British Museum), Tokyo, Shogakukan, 1979, p.104, no.54; and ibid., Ukiyo-e Shuka, vol.X (Honolulu Academy of Arts, Edwin and Irma Grabhorn Collection), Tokyo, Shogakukan, 1979, p.184, no.221.