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Women with a Lamp, from the series Five Colors of Dye (Goshiki-zome)


「五色染」 行灯
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1809–13 (Bunka 6–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.1 x 26.3 cm (15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17818
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #25.1 (no photo); another print in the series: cat. no. 129
DescriptionMFA prints in the Goshiki-zome series: 11.17706, 11.17817, 11.17818, 11.17833, 11.17834
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks No censor's seal
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.