Stairway to the Third Floor (Sankai hashigo): Actors Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I and Nakamura Ganpachi I, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

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Stairway to the Third Floor (Sankai hashigo): Actors Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I and Nakamura Ganpachi I, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

「俳優楽屋の姿見　三階はしご」　「河原崎権十郎」（初代）、「中村鴈八」（初代）

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshūya Hikobei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 11th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.844

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #135D; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-44

Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche
国貞画(年玉枠)

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 11 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Sei
改印：亥十一改
彫師：彫清

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)