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Memorial Portraits of Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV (R), Ichikawa Danjuro VIII (C), and Bandô Shûka II (L)


八代目市川団十の地獄破り (死絵) 右 「嘉永五壬子年二月十七日 浪花ニテ没ス 行年五十五才 歌成院翫雀日良信士 四代目中村歌右衛門 俳名翫雀 家号成田屋」 中 「嘉永七甲寅年八月六日 浪花ニテ没ス 行年三十二才 ☆誉浄莚実忍信士 八代目市川団十郎 俳名三升 家号成田屋」 左 「嘉永二乙鵜年三月六日 東都ニテ没ス 行年四十三才 秀誉実山信士 二代目坂東しうか 俳名秀佳 家号大和屋」
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.5 x 77.5 cm (14 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19707, 11.21372, 11.25017
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 014-0303 (R), 014-0304 (C), 014-0305 (L); Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #173 (complete triptych)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.19707 (center), 11.21372 (left), 11.25017 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.19707VR (11.19707, 11.21372, 11.25017), 11.45416 (right sheet, creped), 11.45417 (left sheet, creped)
Signed Unsigned
無款
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
版元: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.