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Fireworks at Ryôgoku Bridge


両国の花火
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.3 x 25.4 cm (15 1/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17967-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #7 (complete triptych)
DescriptionDiptych (two left sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.17967 (left), 11.17968 (right)

Title on the missing right sheet.
Signed Keisai Eisen hitsu (on each sheet)
渓斎英泉筆
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: 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.