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Actor Fujimura Handayû II as a Female Vendor


二代目藤村半太夫の物売り
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Publisher: Komatsuya (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1719 (Kyôhô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.6 x 16 cm (12 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13172
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0014 or 0017
DescriptionQuestionable color.
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.