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The British Legation at Takanawa (Takanawa Igirisu-kan), from the series Famous Places in Tokyo (Tôkyô meisho zue)


「東京名勝図会 高輪 英吉利官」
Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Hiranoya Shinzô (Aikindô)
Japanese
Meiji era
1868 (Keiô 4/Meiji 1), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.5 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45391.29
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 2 (1935), p. 106
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.45391.29, 2000.382

Album: 11.45391.1-.52
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seal: Dragon 11 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:辰十一改
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: January 19, 2005)

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.