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Evening Bell at Ueno (Ueno banshô), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)


「江戸八景 上野晩鐘」
Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese, 1773–1828)
Japanese
Edo period
1790s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.1 x 38.8 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14794
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 6 (1930), #302; Toyama, The Western-style Colour Prints in Japan (1936), pl. 51
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14794, 21.6903

Some prints in the series have the mark of publisher Tsuruya Kinsuke, but there is no publisher's mark on this impression.
Reprinted from the picture book Ehon Edo Murasaki.
Signed Toyohiro ga
豊広画
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.