Suited to Crepes Stocked by Echigoya (Echigoya shi-ire no chijimi muki), from the series Summer Outfits: Beauties of Today (Natsu ishô tôsei bijin) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Suited to Crepes Stocked by Echigoya (Echigoya shi-ire no chijimi muki), from the series Summer Outfits: Beauties of Today (Natsu ishô tôsei bijin)

Suited to Crepes Stocked by Echigoya (Echigoya shi-ire no chijimi muki), from the series Summer Outfits: Beauties of Today (Natsu ishô tôsei bijin)

「夏衣裳当世美人　越後屋仕入のちぢみ向キ」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1804–06 (Bunka 1–3)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6515

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #444 (#445 is a variant); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #283.8

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection (#424); December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.