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両国橋下の綱船
Fishing Boats with Nets under Ryôgoku Bridge
両国橋下の綱船
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 38.8 x 76.9 cm (15 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14493-5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #51; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #517, pls. 93-5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 24.1.3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #24
DescriptionTriptych: 11.14493 (right), 11.14494 (left), 11.14495 (center)
MFA impressions: 11.14493-5 (complete triptych, no publisher's mark, kiwame seal), 21.6343 (left sheet only, earlier edition with mark of Fushimiya Zenroku)
MFA impressions: 11.14493-5 (complete triptych, no publisher's mark, kiwame seal), 21.6343 (left sheet only, earlier edition with mark of Fushimiya Zenroku)
Signed
Utamaro ga (on each sheet)
歌麿画
歌麿画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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: 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.
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.