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Eight Views of Ômi: Miidera, Ishiyama, Seta, from the series Three Famous Scenic Spots in Japan (Honchô sankei no uchi)


「本朝三景之内」 近江八景寄縮一覧 「三井寺」「石山」「せた」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Echizenya Heizaburô
Japanese
Edo period
1856 (Ansei 3), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.6 cm (14 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26355
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 248, ôban triptych #97.1
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Dragon 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、辰十
彫師: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.