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Drawings (hanshita-e) for a three-volume picturebook, possibly The Great Picture Book of Everything


書名不詳版下絵 (万物絵本大全ヵ)
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1820s–40s

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 13.8 x 20.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1998.670.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawingsAlbums

Catalogue Raisonné British Mus., Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017), #168; Thompson, Hokusai's Lost Manga (2016); MFA, Hokusai (2013), #141; Calza, Hokusai (Italian edition, 1999; English edition, 2003), cat. no. III.70.1-3, photos p. 193 (1999 ed.), p. 179 (2003 ed.)
Signed No artist signature
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1966, registered in MFA ledgers; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper 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 between about 1890 and 1903.