Last acquisitions
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 18639
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Kuwana: Catching Whitebait with a Net in Winter Twilight, in the Sea at Kuwana (Kuwana no umi, fuyugure shirauo ami)
Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Urashima Tarô, with the Dragon Princess Oto-hime
Woodblock print
1855
Impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 43 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals Aratame, Hare 8.
Sheet: vertical ôban (359 x 238 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on Japan paper, light-staining, soilings in the left corner.
380 €
