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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Great Fireworks Display at Ryôgoku Bridge (Ryôgoku ôhanabi), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 両国大花火」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840–42 (Tenpô 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.8 x 36.2 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1043
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #79.20, pls. 826 (1st ed.), 827 (2nd ed.); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #9.27; Matsuki 1939, #189 (fireworks different)
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1043 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.2121, 21.9935
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: Hiro
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross