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Actors Ôtani Hiroji I and Ichikawa Danjûrô II


「大谷ひろう次」(初代)、「市川団十郎」(二代目)
Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese, active about 1725–1760)
Publisher: Komatsuya
Japanese
Edo period
about 1734 (Kyôhô 19)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color, nikawa, and metallic filings
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.9 x 15.5 cm (12 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13171
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0122
Signed Torii Kiyonobu hitsu
鳥居清信筆
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.