No. 1 - Dawn at Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi akebono no zu), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi) – Works

DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

No. 1 - Dawn at Nihonbashi (Nihonbashi akebono no zu), from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi)

「東海道　一　五十三次之内　日本橋　曙之図」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1850–51 (Kaei 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 16.6 x 22.8 cm (6 9/16 x 9 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.1452

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 236, horizontal chûban #23.01

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1452 (deaccessioned in 2019), 06.1755, 11.30489, 2019.1974.1

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Kinugasa
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜、衣笠
彫師：なし

ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross