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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Chiryû, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô


「東海道五十三次之内 池鯉鮒」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1841–44 (Tenpô 12–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal aiban; 19.7 x 31.7 cm (7 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1417
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 242, horizontal aiban #5.40
DescriptionNo. 40 in the series.

MFA impressions:
No censor's seal, publisher's mark in black: 06.1829
With censor's seal, no publisher's mark: *06.1417 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.40026, 21.9354
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross