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No. 40, Mount Atago in Snow (Atago-san setchû), from the series Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei)


「江戸名所四十八景 四十 愛宕山雪中」
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1860–61 (Man'en 1–Bunkyû 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.2 × 17.7 cm (9 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.975.94
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kubo Tsunehiko and Sons Collection Ukiyo-e Hanga (2004), #16-40
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.1745 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.20542, 11.26437, 2011.975.94, 2016.1238

Album entitled Genji gajô: 2011.975.1-.108
源氏画帖

2011.975.1 to .54: Kunisada, The Color Print Contest of a Modern Genji (Ima Genji nishiki-e awase), complete chûban series
2011.975.55 to .102: Hiroshige II, Forty-Eight Famous Views of Edo (Edo meisho yonjûhakkei), complete chûban series
2011.975.103 to .108: Hirokage, fragments of six heavily trimmed ôban prints from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi)
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
版元:なし
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 23, 2011)