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Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Butterflies, Landscape, and Flowers, from an untitled series of ishizuri-e harimaze-e, Edo Period

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  • Utagawa Hiroshige II 二代目歌川広重

Title

Butterflies, Landscape, and Flowers, from an untitled series of ishizuri-e harimaze-e

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Monochrome woodblock print

Techniques

  • Monochrome woodblock print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Aiban tate-e: 34 x 23.3 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: Inscription verso, bottom right: NS1050 [Japanese Characters]

Signature: upper left, signed at bottom right | Hiroshige; upper center - Tokai; upper right - Signed at top right | Shigenobu; bottom left - Signed at left | Ichiryusai

Seals: upper right, Artist's seal | Niryusai; upper center, Artist's seal | Nanzan; upper right - Artist's seal | Morita shi; lower left - Artist's seal | Ando

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.459

Butterflies, Landscape, and Flowers, from an untitled series of ishizuri-e harimaze-e

Inscription: Inscription verso, bottom right: NS1050 [Japanese Characters]

Signature: upper left, signed at bottom right | Hiroshige; upper center - Tokai; upper right - Signed at top right | Shigenobu; bottom left - Signed at left | Ichiryusai

Seals: upper right, Artist's seal | Niryusai; upper center, Artist's seal | Nanzan; upper right - Artist's seal | Morita shi; lower left - Artist's seal | Ando

Place Made: Japan

Exhibition History

The Lure of Ink

March 6 - July 5, 2009

Black on White

December 8, 2000 - March 4, 2001

The Beauty of Black in Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

March 20 - April 6, 1990
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Butterflies, Landscape, and Flowers, from an untitled series of ishizuri-e harimaze-e with the accession number of 34.459. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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