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Scenery of the Tôkaidô Road, from Nihonbashi to Arai (Tôkaidô shôkei Nihonbashi yori Arai made)


「東海道勝景従日本橋至荒井」
Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1873)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.8 x 48.4 cm (14 1/8 x 19 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37411a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTwo sheets of incomplete triptych (half of hexaptych).

MFA impressions: 11.16235VR (11.16235-6, 11.16239-42; complete hexaptych), 11.37395a-c (left half only), *11.37411a-b (two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2019), 2009.5011.1a-c (right half only)
Signed Gountei Sadahide ga (on each sheet)
五雲亭貞秀画
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥四改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.