Garganey and Aronia (Kaidô ni shimaaji, at right); Wagtail, Hosta, and Lilies (Sekirei, gibôshi, yuri, at left), from the series Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kachô zue)

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Garganey and Aronia (Kaidô ni shimaaji, at right); Wagtail, Hosta, and Lilies (Sekirei, gibôshi, yuri, at left), from the series Pictures of Birds and Flowers (Kachô zue)

「花鳥図絵　海棠に島鴨」　「花鳥図絵　鶺鴒　ぎぼうし　ゆり」

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Or: Utagawa Hiroshige III (Japanese, 1842–1894)
Publisher: Yorozuya Magobei (Ôkura Magobei, Kin'eidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period–Meiji era

late 19th century

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Two vertical yotsugiri prints on uncut horizontal chûban sheet; 17.6 × 23.8 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number1997.524.7

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionAlbum: 1997.524.1-10, with a printed title slip on the front cover reading Sômoku kachô zue, zen (Pictures of Plants and Trees, Birds and Flowers, Complete).
Keyes notes: A collection of twenty quarter-block prints with printed yellow borders; late impression, printed with aniline pigments. Apparently a fragment of a larger work; five sheets are numbered 52-56 in the lower left margins.

Signed Hiroshige
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ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)