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

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

「江戸名所　洲崎弁天の祠海上汐干狩」

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 23.9 x 36.2 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24

Accession Number54.409

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 247, horizontal ôban #15.10

DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1670 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.10047, 54.409

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村松、吉村
彫師：なし

Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)