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Two Women and a Palanquin, from the series Chinese and Japanese Poems by Seven-year-old Girls of the Present Day (Kindai shichi-sai jo shika)


「近代七才女詩歌」 駕籠
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical nagaban; 52.3 x 23.1 cm (20 9/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20235
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #77; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #674.1; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 246.1.1; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #359; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #352
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.