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名所風景 美人十二相 おんぶ
Mother Carrying Child on Her Back, from the series Scenery of Famous Places and Twelve Physiognomies of Beauties (Meisho fûkei, bijin jûnisô)
名所風景 美人十二相 おんぶ
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1803 (Kyôwa 3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 35.4 x 21.5 cm (13 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39397
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #585.10
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14298, 11.39397
Series title, on scroll at upper left, cut off of this impression.
Series title, on scroll at upper left, cut off of this impression.
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Marks
No censor's seal
改印：なし
改印：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.
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.