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Actor Ichikawa Ebizô II as a Medicine Peddler (Uirô-uri)


「市川海老蔵」(二代目) 外郎売
Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese, active about 1725–1760)
Publisher: Nakajimaya Izaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1741 (Genbun 6/Kanpô 1), 11th month (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.3 x 15.4 cm (12 5/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19093
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Fujisawa, Kabuki Edo hyakkei (2022), p. 79; Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0187
Signed Torii Kiyonobu hitsu
鳥居清信筆
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.