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Pleasure Boats on the Sumida River under Shin-Ôhashi Bridge


新大橋橋下の涼み船
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Shûeidô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1792 (Kansei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14117
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Chôbunsai Eishi ten (2023), #20; Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (2023), #59; MFA, Golden Age (2010), #121; Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #95.1-5?; US 6 (AIC 3, 1978), pls. 72-6; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 219, list no. 124
DescriptionCenter left sheet of incomplete pentaptych.
Pentaptych co-published by Izumiya Ichibei and Shûeidô. Shûeidô publisher's mark on far left sheet only; Izumiya Ichibei publisher's mark on far right sheet only.
MFA impressions: 11.14118VR (complete pentaptych: 11.14118 + 11.21179-82), 11.14117 (center left sheet only), 11.14025 (center right sheet only), 21.7596-600 (complete pentaptych)
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
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.