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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

No. 28, Fukuroi: Famous Tôtômi Kites (Fukuroi, meibutsu Enshû tako), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojûsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô


「五十三次名所図会 二十八 袋井 名物遠州たこ」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 22.5 cm (13 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.678
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 252, ôban #24.28
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.678 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.25154, 11.30278, 21.5271
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、卯七
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross