Mountain River on the Kiso Road (Kisoji no yamakawa), from an untitled set of three triptychs

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

木曽路之山川

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Okazawaya Taheiji (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 24.2 cm (14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.983

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #120; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #35

DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: *06.983 (center sheet only, deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7380-2 (complete triptych)

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (on right sheet only)
広重筆

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、巳八
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross