Hawking Party in Front of Mount Fuji by Kitagawa Utamaro (1800)

Date Created: 13 November 2017

Author: Kitagawa Utamaro (1750s-1806), Japanese

Source: The Internet

Owner: Museum of Fine Arts

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachussets, USA

Link to: Website

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Hawking Party in Front of Mount Fuji

富士山麓の鷹狩り

Japanese
Edo period
about 1800 (Kansei 12)
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806), Publisher Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)


Catalogue Raisonné

Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #108.1-3, and pls. 197-9; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #160-2

Dimensions

Vertical ôban triptych; 38 x 75.5 cm (14 15/16 x 29 3/4 in.)

Accession Number

21.7682-4

Medium or Technique

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

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Triptych: 21.7682 (left), 21.7683 (center), 21.7684 (right)

Signed

Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆

Markings

No censor's seal
改印:なし

Provenance

Purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.

Credit Line

William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

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