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America: a Steam Boat in Motion (Amerika koku jôkisha ôrai)


「亜墨利加国蒸気者往来」
Utagawa Yoshikazu (Japanese, active 1848–1870)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.3 x 74 cm (14 11/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent
Accession Number49.1296-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #9; Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), pp. 200-1; Sakamoto & Toeda, Nihon no bijutsu #328 (1993), #36; Yonemura, Yokohama (1990), cat. no. 66
DescriptionTriptych: 49.1296 (left), 49.1297 (center), 49.1298 (right)
Signed Issen Yoshikazu ga (on each sheet)
一川芳員画
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 10 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉十改
彫師:なし
Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: November 10, 1949)