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KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando

FICHE 19217

(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)

Tsuchiyama: Actor Onoe Kikugorô III (?) as Shirai Gonpachi

Woodblock print

 

1855

Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Hiroshige hitsu and Toyokuni ga, plate 50 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals aratame, Hare 8.

Sheet: ôban (358 x 245 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Condition: laid on Japan paper, very slight soilings.

450 €