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Drawing for: No. 54, Ôtsu: the Famous Local Product, Ôtsu-e Paintings (Meibutsu Ôtsu-e), from the series Fifty-three Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan zue)


「東海道五十三図絵 大津 名ぶつ大津ゑ」 (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; 37.2 x 25.4 cm (14 5/8 x 10 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number53.500
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #II.19; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #136; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 251, ôban #42.54
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Provenance1953, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)