Beauty under Weeping Cherry, from the series (?) Fashionable Songs of Flowers and Birds (Fûryû kachô nagame) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Beauty under Weeping Cherry, from the series (?) Fashionable Songs of Flowers and Birds (Fûryû kachô nagame)

Beauty under Weeping Cherry, from the series (?) Fashionable Songs of Flowers and Birds (Fûryû kachô nagame)

「風流花鳥眺」　垂桜に美人

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Jinbei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 25.2 cm (14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1447

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Ichiyûsai Shigenobu ga
一幽斎重宣画

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

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)