View Over Kyoto From Ya Ami

John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)

1886

Medium/Technique Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite

Dimensions 26.67 x 36.99 cm (10 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number21.1441

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsWatercolors

DescriptionView from the Yaami hotel in Kioto. The hotel opened in 1881, and burned in 1906. The site of the old hotel was turned into Murayama Park.

Signed Lower right: L F / Kioto/ 86

InscriptionsInscribed in pen and black ink: Sept 17.86 (lower left): LF / Kioto / 86 (lower right); other notes in graphite

ProvenanceLent by William Sturgis Bigelow, December 19,1910. Returned February 6, 1911. Gift 1921