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The Fine Arts Museum and the Shôjô Fountain at the Second National Industrial Exposition in Ueno Park (Ueno kôen naikoku kangyô daini hakurankai bijutsukan oyobi shôjô funsuiki no zu)


「上野公園内國勸業第二博覧會美術館并猩々噴水器之圖」
Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1881 (Meiji 14), April 18

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38 x 76.4 cm (14 15/16 x 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession Number2000.508a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #60; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #14, photo p. 55; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #22, photo p. 16; Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 5 (1938), pp. 96-7
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)