Galerie Christian Collin

(1797 - 1858) 

Shimada: The Suruga Bank of the Ôi River (Shimada, Ôigawa Sungan)

Woodblock print

circa 1833 -1834

Impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige ga, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the First Tôkaidô or Great Tôkaidô, published by Takenouchi Magohachi.

Sheet: ôban (239 x 368 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Condition: laid on Japan paper.