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Reading a Book, from the series Fashionable Comparisons of Precious Children (Fûryû kodakara awase)


「風流子宝合」 本読み
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14189
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #83; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #259.2; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #271; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 151.1.2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #720; the series: Asano & Clark 1995, #s 416-8 (this design not illustrated)
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
Unidentified seals, possibly collector's seals
改印:なし
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.