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Ruth,
This is by Kitigawa Utamaro. It is "Woman with a Pipe" from his "Five Shades of Ink, Newly Made" (Shinsei goshiki-zumi) series.
If "the paper is thick, and yellowing" then it is a copy. The original paper is like a heavy tissue paper and the ink bleeds through so you can see a pretty good mirror image on the back of the print.
Cheers,
Stan
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