Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Susaki (Susaki shiohigari), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)

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Gathering Shellfish at Low Tide at Susaki (Susaki shiohigari), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Kôto meisho)

「江都名所　洲崎しほ干狩」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1832–34 (Tenpô 3–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24.3 x 38 cm (9 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams

Accession Number20.49

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #49.6, pl. 458; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #11.08; Matsuki 1939, #133

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1510 (deaccessioned in 2019), *11.2053 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.39257, 20.49

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceHenry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; 1920, gift of the estate of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1920)