COLLECTION OF TWELVE PRINTS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS EDO TO MEIJI PERIOD comprising ten oban tate-e prints, including one print by Utagawa Yoshikazu (active ca. 1850-70), published by Maruya Jinpachi; one print by Seiyosai Shunshi (active ca. 1820s), depicting The Actor Onoe Fujaku III as Kobayakawa Takakage; one triptych in a frame by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900); one harimaze sheet with three pictures; and one by Nansuitei Yoshiyuki (1835-1879), Tenman-gu Shrine in Sata Village (Sata-mura Tenman-gu), from the series One Hundred Views of Osaka (Naniwa hyakkei); one by Utagawa Yoshitsuna (active ca. 1848–1868), entitled At the Hour of the Horse on the 8th Day of the 5th Month, People Born in Earth and Water Signs Enter a Lucky Cycle (Gogatsu yôka uma no koku dosei suisei no hito uke ni iru): Actor Onoe Kikugorô IV (?) with Masks of Fukusuke and Fukujo, published by Kagaya Yasubei; one by GigadoAshiyuki (active ca. 1814–33), depicting The Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Ishikawa Goemon, published by Shohonya Seishichi; one by Yasukawa Harusada I (1798–1849); and one by Kikukawa Eizan (1787-1867) etc.; and two surimono(largest: 37.2cm x 26.1cm)Provenance: From the collection of Arthur Halcrow Verstage Note: Arthur Halcrow Verstage (1875-1969) was an architect who spent much of his career in the public sector. He was a student at the Royal Academy School of Architecture in the 1900s and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1902. By 1903 he was a student and assistant at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (later known as the Central School of Art and Design) in London where William Lethaby was principal and a great influence on him. He then oversaw the design of the new school in Southampton Row from 1905-8. From here he became an architect for London County Council and was involved with many London societies, and as a founding member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, a forerunner to The William Morris Society. His large and varied collection was a reflection of his wide interest in the arts. His archive was purchased by The William Morris Society in 2005.