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Ryôgoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank (Ryôgokubashi Ôkawabata), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)


「名所江戸百景 両国橋大川ばた」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 33.7 x 21.9 cm (13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16855
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #12.119, pl. 370, 371; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 250, vertical ôban #62.118
DescriptionNo. 059 (summer section) on the title page for the series.

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: (aratame, Dragon 8; cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:(改、辰八)
彫師: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.