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「当風浮世美人」 文読み
Two Women Reading a Letter, from the series Floating World Beauties in the Modern Style (Tôfû ukiyo bijin)
「当風浮世美人」 文読み
Japanese
Edo period
about 1809–13 (Bunka 6–10)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 25.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17776
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #119.2 and cat. no. 147
Signed
Eizan hitsu
英山筆
英山筆
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
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.
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.