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Two Women and Servant on Wharf in Snow, from an untitled series of Famous Places (Meisho)


名所絵 雪中舟付場
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801–04 (Kyôwa 1–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25 x 38.3 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17576
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ôban #14.11
DescriptionFrom a series of figures in landscape settings, most of which have an individual title in seal script at the upper right. In this case, however, the title is illegible.
Signed (seals only)
Marks Artist's seals: Hoku, Sai
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.