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Peacock and Peonies


牡丹に孔雀
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37.2 x 16.8 cm (14 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7907
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #120; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #6; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #s 72, 254; Rijksmuseum cat. IV (1984), p. 29, #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.6
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1158, 11.2131, 11.21130, *11.39604 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7907

No publisher's mark on this impression.
Poetic inscription translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 314.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsChinese poem
牡丹花冨貴者也 幽斎
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane Collection (#214); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.