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


「江戸名所 洲崎弁天之社海上汐干狩」 (下絵)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1)

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 24 x 34.1 cm (9 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number53.2044
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #VI.15; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #143; the print: Sakai, Hiroshige Edo fûkei (1996), list #62.8, pl. 743; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #16.8; Matsuki 1939, #223
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 10, 1953)