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No. 25, Kanaya: View of the Ôi River from the Uphill Road (Kanaya, Sakamichi yori Ôigawa chôbô), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô


「五十三次名所図会 二十五 金谷 坂道より大井川眺望」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1197
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #24.25
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1197, 11.16850, 11.30275, 21.5270, 2016.1368
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、卯七
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)