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Amateur Comedians Rehearsing (Shirôto chaban shita geiko)


「素人茶番下げいこ」
Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), intercalary 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 35.4 × 49 cm (13 15/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.34998.38a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), fig. 126
DescriptionFrom an album of satirical prints, 11.34998.1-112.
Signed Hiroshige gihitsu (on left sheet)
広重戯筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon intercalary aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:辰閏改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 29, 2004)

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.