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Woman at an Inn, with Mountain Landscape in Blue, from an untitled series


旅宿の美人に藍摺りの風景
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1820–21 (Bunsei 3–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 × 28.4 cm (14 3/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.427
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Other prints in the series (?): Ushiyama, Kunisada hyakusen gashû, zokuhen (1928), #s 52-54, and a related design, #87
DescriptionThe same foreground design apears in a print in the series An Assortment of Famous Restaurants of the Present Day (Tôji kômei kaiseki zukushi), illustrated in Ushiyama (1928), #87; it is uncertain which version came first.
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)