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Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV


四代目岩井半四郎
Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762–1819)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.5 x 15 cm (12 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18235
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #1146
Signed Shun'ei ga
春英画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
Collector's seal: broken sakura
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.