No. 49 - Sakanoshita, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô – Works

No. 49 - Sakanoshita, from the series The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations (Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Aritaya Tôkaidô

「東海道　四十九　五十三次之内　坂の下」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

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

Dimensions Horizontal yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 10.3 x 15.5 cm (4 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.271

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 233, horizontal yotsugiri #31.49

DescriptionFrom a set of 56 small designs, printed four to a sheet on 14 horizontal ôban sheets.

MFA impressions: 21.9214, 34.271

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)