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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

View of Ochanomizu (Ochanomizu no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 御茶之水之図」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832–39 (Tenpô 3–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.8 x 34 cm (8 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1509
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #51.6, pls. 480-481; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #64.2; Matsuki 1939, #13
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1509 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.24931, 20.62

Title, censor's seal, and publisher's mark in right margin, cut off of this impression.
There are two editions of this series, a first edition from the 1830s and a reprint edition with censorship seals of the 1840s.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seal: (kiwame; in lower right margin, cut off of this impression)
改印:(極)
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross