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Courtesan Looking at a Lantern


提燈を見る遊女
Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.1 x 14.5 cm (12 1/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19043
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPublisher's mark illegible because of damage.
Signed Unsigned (or signature torn off of this impression?)
無款
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.