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Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as a Water Vendor (Mizu-uri), from the series Actors Imagined as Summertime Merchants (Haiyû mitate natsu akindo)


「俳優見立夏商人」 十二代目市村羽左衛門の水売り
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Produced by: Tsujiya Yasubei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 23.2 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39317
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Description見立
Signed Kôchôrô Kunisada ga
香蝶楼国貞画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
Inscriptions「福珠園輝人 なまぬるい役者のきもをひやさせむうつ巻滝の氷水売」
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.