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英国の大船
A Large English Ship ("Engerand Golood Gkip")
英国の大船
Okada Shuntôsai (Japanese, active about 1830–60)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830s
Medium/Technique
Copperplate etching
Dimensions
18.3 x 24 cm (7 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession NumberRES.60.10
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kobe City Mus., Ikoku-e no boken (2001), #3-65; John Clark, Japanese 19th-C. Copperplate Prints (BM Occasional Papers 84, 1994), #B-3; Kuroda, Kamigata-e Ichiran, pl. 142 as a Dutch ship; Toyama, Western Style Colour Prints in Japan, no. 255
DescriptionInscribed in bottom margin, at left: "IVI Jokuwin," possibly the name of the Dutch source copied by Shuntôsai.
Signed
"Cijoentoosai foecen" (in romanization, in bottom margin, at right; =Shuntôsai fecit?)
ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1960, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 1960)
NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.
NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.