Hydrangea (Ajisai), from the series Modern Beauties Compared to Flowers (Hana kurabe imayô sugata) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Hydrangea (Ajisai), from the series Modern Beauties Compared to Flowers (Hana kurabe imayô sugata)

Hydrangea (Ajisai), from the series Modern Beauties Compared to Flowers (Hana kurabe imayô sugata)

「花競今様姿　紫陽花」

Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1301

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Yoshitora ga
芳虎画

Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜、馬込
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)