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Fishing Boats with Nets under Ryôgoku Bridge


両国橋下の網舟
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Fushimiya Zenroku (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 25.7 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6343
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #51 (complete triptych); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #517.1.2, 517.2.2, 517.3.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 24.1.1-3 (variant with publisher's mark); Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #24
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.14493-5 (complete triptych, no publisher's mark, kiwame seal), 21.6343 (left sheet only, earlier edition with mark of Fushimiya Zenroku)
Signed Utamaro ga
歌麿画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.