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渓斎鳥羽絵本 煙管を吸う男女
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Toba-e Cartoon: Couple Sitting Back-to-back and Smoking
渓斎鳥羽絵本 煙管を吸う男女
Japanese
Edo period
about 1810s–1840s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 14.8 x 20 cm (5 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Image: 11.1 x 17 cm (4 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Image: 11.1 x 17 cm (4 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number1997.635
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionFrom a dismantled album of comic pictures entitled Keisai toba ehon (An Album of Comic Pictures by Keisai Eisen), 1997.617 to 1997.649. Each sheet pasted onto paper, tucked into an album with brown silk covers and handwritten titleslip.
Additional pages, previously removed and re-numbered: RES.11.5754 to .5759 .
Additional pages, previously removed and re-numbered: RES.11.5754 to .5759 .
Signed
Unsigned
無款
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)
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.
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.