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Geese Flying in Formation at Mukôjima (Mukôjima gankô), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei)


「江戸八景 向嶋雁行」 (校合摺)
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.5 x 19.3 cm (10 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24871
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Someya, Chôbunsai Eishi mokuroku (Chiba, 2023), chûban #101; the series: Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #150 (this design not listed)
Signed Eishi ga
栄之画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.