Monkey Bridge in Kai Province from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, No. 13

8th month, 1853

Asian Art

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Medium: Ukiyo-e: polychrome woodblock print
Dimensions: 15 × 10 in. (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
frame: 21 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (54.6 × 38.7 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1950.518
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1950; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Dr. Eric Zafran and James H. Rubin, Monet's Water Lilies: An Artist's Obsession, exh. cat. (Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2011), 18, fig. 9

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts

Marks

Publisher’s seal mark: Koshihei 越平 (oval, relief, lower left margin)\r\nCensor's seal marks: Ushi hachi 丑八 (8th month 1853, year of the ox) (oval, relief, lower left margin above the publisher’s mark), Murata 村田 (round, relief, upper right margin), & Kinugasa 衣笠 (round, relief, upper right margin)\r\n

Inscriptions

Rokujū yo-shū meisho zue: Kai Saru-hashi 六十余刕名所図会　甲斐　さ流者し (upper right)

Signed

“Hiroshige hitsu” (“painted by Hiroshige”) 廣重筆 (centre left)

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