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Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as a Courtesan Looking at Calender, with a Kamuro


初代佐野川市松の遊女
Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Publisher: Iseya Kinbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1754 (Hôreki 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.5 x 14.2 cm (12 3/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19045
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 2102
Signed Ishikawa Toyonobu hitsu
石川豊信筆
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.