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Perspective Picture of Whale Hunting in Kumano Bay (Uki-e Kumano ura kujira tsuki no zu)


「浮絵 熊野浦鯨突之図」
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770–75 (late Meiwa–early An'ei)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.5 x 34.6 cm (9 1/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1341
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #55; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 9, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (1989), pl. 86; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2432
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1341, 11.13479, 49.564

Title, signature, and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed (Utagawa Toyoharu ga, in right margin, cut off of this impression)
(歌川豊春画)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross