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Gathering Shellfish in the Sea at the Benten Shrine in Susaki (Susaki Benten no yashiro kaijô shiohigari), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 洲崎弁天之社海上汐干狩」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.5 x 34.3 cm (8 7/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.874
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #62.8, pl. 743; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #16.8; Matsuki 1939, #223
DescriptionPublisher's mark and date seal in lower right margin, cut off of this impression.

Preliminary drawing (shita-e): 53.2044
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, (Tiger 8)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、(寅八)
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross