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Women Buying Potted Plants from a Street Vendor, from the series Current Manners in Eastern Brocade (Fûzoku Azuma no nishiki)


「風俗東之錦」 植木福寿草売り
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.2 x 24.6 cm (15 7/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5473
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #3-12, pl. 093; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #8.12; Ukiyo-e shûka 12 (1980), pl. 130; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Edo engei hana zukushi (2009), #12; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #583, pl. LVI
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.30357, 21.5473
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Charles Jacquin; January 20, 1921, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding at January 17-22, 1921 sale of Mr. Charles Jacquin's collection at the Walpole Galleries, New York, lot #270(?); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.