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

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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

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

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.