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Wrapper for the series The Dutch Picture Lens: Eight Views of Edo (Oranda gakyô, Edo hakkei)


阿蘭陀画鏡 江戸八景
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Sôshûya Yohei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 18.4 x 22.5 cm (7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37810
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #83; MFA, Hokusai (2013), #18-1; TNM, Hokusai (2005), #84; Clark, "Hokusai and the Microscope," in Hokusai and His Age (2005), pp. 328-39; Calza, Hokusai (2003), III.23.1-9
DescriptionWrapper for the series 11.20162-69 (formerly assigned the number 11.20169a).
Signed Hokusai sensei zu
北斎先生図
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.