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View of Shinbashi (Shinbashi no zu), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)


「江都名所 しん橋の図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–42 (Tenpô 10–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.7 x 36.5 cm (9 11/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24915
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #58.6, pl. 469; Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, Nyan to mo neko darake/ Cats of Many Varieties (2012), #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #12.2; Tanba 1965, #217; Matsuki 1939, #143
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.24915, 21.8912, 21.8913

There appear to be at least two, perhaps three, different series with the same title and publisher and very similar formats.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
改印:極
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.