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The Sleeping Dragon Plum Tree


臥龍梅
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Chichibuya Shôzaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789–90 (Kansei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 32.5 x 23 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14035
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), aiban #11; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #137?
DescriptionRight (?) sheet of incomplete triptych.
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
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.