Image
Description
Title
Parrot on a Flowering Branch (Kaidô ni inko)
Year
Edo Period
Medium
color, ink
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Image: 38.9 x 17.5 cm (15 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Signature: Signed at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô han); censor's seal | kiwame
Identification
Edition
Early impression on thick paper; unusual use of orange pigment on feathers of bird; Bogel notes a second edition of the same design in Rockefeller Collection published by Sanoya Kihei (ex coll. Blanchard, sold American Art Galleries, 1916)
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
34.275.2
About
Parrot on a Flowering Branch (Kaidô ni inko)
Early impression on thick paper; unusual use of orange pigment on feathers of bird; Bogel notes a second edition of the same design in Rockefeller Collection published by Sanoya Kihei (ex coll. Blanchard, sold American Art Galleries, 1916)
Signature: Signed at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu
Seals: Publisher's seal | Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô han); censor's seal | kiwame
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
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