Image

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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume), Edo Period

Description

Maker

Title

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 36.8 x 17.3 cm (14 1/2 x 6 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Note in Bogel remarks on the quality of impression and embossing, calling this the first state of the print with uniform grey ground applied before the embossing to flowers. There is additional embossing on the birds.

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Utagawa; publisher's seal | Wakasysa Yoichi (Jakurindô);collector's seal, lower right | Hayashi Tadamasa

Identification

Edition

Note in Bogel remarks on the quality of impression and embossing, calling this the first state of the print with uniform grey ground applied before the embossing to flowers. There is additional embossing on the birds.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.288.2

About

Tree Sparrows and Camellia in Snow (Setchû tsubaki ni suzume)

Note in Bogel remarks on the quality of impression and embossing, calling this the first state of the print with uniform grey ground applied before the embossing to flowers. There is additional embossing on the birds.

Note in Bogel remarks on the quality of impression and embossing, calling this the first state of the print with uniform grey ground applied before the embossing to flowers. There is additional embossing on the birds.

Signature: Signed at right | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Utagawa; publisher's seal | Wakasysa Yoichi (Jakurindô);collector's seal, lower right | Hayashi Tadamasa

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

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Use

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