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江戸名所張交図会 「飛鳥山眺望」
Panoramic View from Asuka Hill (Asukayama chôbô), cut from one sheet of the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)
江戸名所張交図会 「飛鳥山眺望」
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paper
Dimensions
Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 13.6 x 22.6 cm (5 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8850
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #11.2, pls. 108 (uncut, color, gray background), 109 (uncut, color, blue background; blue version not illustrated); Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #08.02; Matsuki 1939, #587 (uncut sheet)
DescriptionFrom a sheet of three pictures showing Asukayama (T), Saruwaka-machi (BR), Koganei (BL).
There are at least four color variations of this print: all blue (not in Sakai), color with gray background (Sakai pl. 108), color with blue background (Sakai pl. 109), color with yellow backgorund (not in Sakai)
MFA impressions: 21.8850 (Asukayama, all blue), 21.8855 (Asukayama, color, blue background), 21.8856 (Saruwaka-machi, color, gray background), RES.54.10 (uncut sheet, yellow background)
There are at least four color variations of this print: all blue (not in Sakai), color with gray background (Sakai pl. 108), color with blue background (Sakai pl. 109), color with yellow backgorund (not in Sakai)
MFA impressions: 21.8850 (Asukayama, all blue), 21.8855 (Asukayama, color, blue background), 21.8856 (Saruwaka-machi, color, gray background), RES.54.10 (uncut sheet, yellow background)
Signed
(this picture unsigned)
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.