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Fishing Boats in Tsukuda Bay, from Eitai Bridge (Eitaibashi Tsukuda oki isaribune), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tôto meisho)


「東都名所 永代橋佃沖漁舟」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1850s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 22.3 x 34.4 cm (8 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.9798
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 244, horizontal ôban #60.03; first edition: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #50.2, pl. 527
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1521, *11.2074 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.9798, 21.9799

From a reprint edition, with altered title, of a series originally called Edo meisho no uchi, published around 1832-34.
No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
ProvenanceMay 1915, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.