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King Zhu of the Shang Dynasty Lights the Signal Beacons, a Perspective Picture (Uki-e In no Chû-ô noroshi o agaru zu)


「浮絵殷誅王狼煙上図(うきゑいんのちうわうのろしをあがるず)」
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.1 x 38 cm (9 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14703
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #238
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14703, 11.14732
Signed Utagawa Toyoharu ga
歌川豊春画
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.