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The Famous Old Lady (Hyôban no baba ya): The Hag of Hell (Datsueba) Blowing Soap Bubbles


「ひやうばんのばばや」 奪衣婆願掛け
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Izutsuya Shôkichi, Japanese
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 26 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16598
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tomizawa, Nishiki-e no chikara (2005), chart 3, #5, photo p. 48; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #93
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi giga
一勇斎国芳戯画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
彫師:なし
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.