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Gathering Shellfish in the Sea at the Benten Shrine in Susaki (Susaki Benten no hokora kaijô shiohigari), from the series Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)


「江戸名所 洲崎弁天の祠 海上汐干狩」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.5 x 34 cm (8 7/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10047
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #15.10
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1670 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10047, 54.409

No publisher's mark on this impression.
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Censors' seals: (Muramatsu, Yoshimura; in upper right margin, cut off of this impression)
No blockcutter's mark
改印:(村松、吉村)
彫師:なし
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.