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Bon Lanterns and Potted-plant Vendor, from Vol. 2 of the book Ehon shiki no hana (Flowers of the Four Seasons)


絵本四季花 下 盆灯籠と植木売
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two pages; 17 x 25.1 cm (6 11/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #484.11 (bw photo in text vol.)
DescriptionMFA impressions:
intact book: 2011.802 (vol. 1 only), 2011.804 (complete)
pictures cut out and mounted in two-page spreads, with margins cut off: 47.3 to 47.14
Signed (On final page of Vol. 2: Gakô Kitagawa Utamaro)
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)