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Braving the Snow, Our Troops Capture the Stronghold at Weihaiwei (Yuki o okashite, waga gun Ikaiei no kenrui o nuku zu)


「冒雪我軍抜威海衛之堅壘圖」
Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1895 (Meiji 28), February

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.1 × 74.4 cm (14 5/8 × 29 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.1780-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Yoshida, Kiyochika (1964), #137; Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 8 (1936), pp. 14-5
DescriptionTriptych: 21.1780 (left), 21.1781 (right), 21.1782 (center)

MFA impressions: 21.1780-2, 2000.252a-c, RES.23.270-2
Signed Kiyochika
清親
Marks Artist's seal: Kobayashi Kiyochika
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.