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Firewood Gatherers Taking a Smoking Break


黒木売りと牛
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1814–17 (Bunka 11–14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.4 x 37.6 cm (10 x 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41504
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #344.5 and cat. no. 338
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.20966, 11.41504
Signed Eizan hitsu
英山筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.