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Mother and Child by Gourd Trellis in Moonlight


夕顔棚に月見の親子 (複製)
After: Hishikawa Sôri (Japanese, active about 1789–1818)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s copy based on 1799 original

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.2 x 18.2 cm (8 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25212
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #162
DescriptionGroup A copy, based on an original work of 1799 in horizontal format.

MFA impressions, both reproductions: 11.25212, 17.1451
Signed Sôri ga
宗理画
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.