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Courtesan of Osaka, Left Sheet of a Triptych (Sanpuku tsui, Ôsaka, hidari)


「三幅対 大阪 左」
Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711–1785)
Publisher: Urokogataya Magobei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1745 (Enkyô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Wide hashira-e; 63.8 x 23.8 cm (25 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19681
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #121; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 208, #21
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19681, 21.6273
Signed Tanjôdô Ishikawa Shûha Toyonobu zu
胆條堂石川秀芭豊信図
Marks Artist's seals: Ishikawa shi
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.