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「碁太平記白石噺 紺屋の段」
Scene at a Dyer's Shop (Kôya no dan), from the series The Tale of Shiraishi, a Latter-day Taiheiki (Go-Taiheiki Shiraishi banashi)
「碁太平記白石噺 紺屋の段」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
1785 (Tenmei 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 19 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19400
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #191-8 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #265.7; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #804, pl. XLVIII
Signed
Kiyonaga ga
清長画
清長画
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.
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.