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日本名将伝 版下絵
Drawings (hanshita-e) for a three-volume picturebook, Lives of Great Generals of Japan (Nihon meishô den)
日本名将伝 版下絵
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830s
Medium/Technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
23.5 × 16.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Source unidentified
Accession Number2006.1863.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
British Mus., Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017), pp. 42-6, 268 (#170)
Signed
Unsigned
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 2006, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2006)
NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper 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 between about 1890 and 1903.
NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper 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 between about 1890 and 1903.