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Dragon in Clouds


雲竜
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–39 (Tenpô 1–10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 38 x 17.1 cm (14 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21129
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #III.26; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #4.5?
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.981, 11.21129, 21.7900
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
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.