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No. 816, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun)


「郵便報知新聞 第八百十六号」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Kumagaya Shôshichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1876 (Meiji 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 23.7 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37905
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #25.57 (no photo)
DescriptionA performance by the amazing old midget who was 21 inches tall, drank, sang, and danced, and lived to a ripe old age.
Signed Taiso Yoshitoshi
大蘇芳年
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.