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Drying Flounder in Wakasa Province (Wakasa karei o seisu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)


「諸国名所百景 若狭 かれゐを刺す」
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.2 cm (14 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16868
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Strange 1925, p. 193, list #43
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16868, RES.54.190.15
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Goat 12 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:未十二改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.