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Perspective View of Moon Viewing in Mid-Autumn (Uki-e chû-aki no kei tsukimi zu)


浮絵 中秋景月見図
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.1 x 36.2 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14726
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mueller et al., Competition and Collaboration (2007), #10; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #74
DescriptionTitle, signature, and mark of publisher Matsumura Yahei in right margin, cut off of this impression.
Signed (Utagawa Toyoharu ga, in right margin, cut off of this impression)
(歌川豊春画)
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.