Chinese Rose and Black-faced Bunting (Gekkika, aoji, at right), Iris and Kingfisher (Hana shôbu, kawasemi, at left), from the series Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kachô zue)

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Chinese Rose and Black-faced Bunting (Gekkika, aoji, at right), Iris and Kingfisher (Hana shôbu, kawasemi, at left), from the series Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kachô zue)

「花鳥図絵　月季花　蒿雀」　「花鳥図絵　花菖蒲　翡翠」

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Or: Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period–Meiji era

late 19th century

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Two vertical yotsugiri prints on uncut horizontal chûban sheet; 17.6 × 23.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number1997.524

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionAlbum: 1997.524.1-10, with a printed title slip on the front cover reading Sômoku kachô zue, zen (Pictures of Plants and Trees, Birds and Flowers, Complete).
Keyes notes: A collection of twenty quarter-block prints with printed yellow borders; late impression, printed with aniline pigments. Apparently a fragment of a larger work; five sheets are numbered 52-56 in the lower left margins.

Signed Hiroshige
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ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)