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Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII and His Son Ichikawa Ebizô VI (?), from an untitled series of double actor portraits with border of bats


蝙蝠模様枠の役者絵 七代目市川団十郎、六代目市川海老蔵ヵ
Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige) (Japanese, about 1802–1835)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26.5 x 37.5 cm (10 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25900
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 006-0865 (no date)
Signed Gosotei Toyokuni hitsu (on each design)
後素亭豊国筆
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.