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Drawing for: No. 52, Ishibe: Travelers Staying at the Inn While It Snows (Ryokyaku setchû tairyû), from the series Fifty-three Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan zue)


「東海道五十三図絵 五十二 石部 旅客雪中滞留」 (下絵)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1849–53 (Kaei 2–6)

Medium/Technique Ink on paper, with slight color
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number53.499
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #II.18; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #135; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #42.52
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)