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No. 15, Bengalese Finch and Peonies (Jûshimatsu, botan), from the series Forty-eight Hawks Drawn from Life (Ikiutsushi shijûhachi taka)


「生写四十八鷹 十姉妹 ぼたん 十五」
Nakayama Sûgakudô (Japanese, active 1850–1860)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1859 (Ansei 6), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.8 cm (14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number20.434
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #390
DescriptionMFA impressions: *11.17462 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.17463 (deaccessioned in 2012), 20.433, 20.434, 2016.1258, RES.54.188.38
Signed Sûgakudô shujin
嵩岳堂主人
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Sûgaku
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 1, 1920)