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Japanese White-eye and Fruit on Vine


目白と果実
Artist unknown, Japanese
After: Sakai Hôitsu (Japanese, 1761–1828)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 24.3 x 30 cm (9 9/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45880.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom one of ten albums of fan prints.
Based on an illustration in the book Hôitsu sensei gafu; see Hiraki Ukiyo-e Museum, Japanese Picture Books from Ravicz Collection (1994), #61.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.