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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2014
People
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)
Title
European Watch
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
1823
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207553

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and silver on paper
Dimensions
H. 21 x W. 19.2 cm (8 1/4 x 7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: of poems; printed:
    はな鳥に
    春はそやされ
    千金と
    誰かねつけし
    宵の一刻
    —四半法否 [Shihan Hōhi] (dates unknown)
    紅毛の
    わたり物なれ
    春の日の
    あしのなかさを
    はかる土圭そ
    —八陣亭型城 [Hachijin-tei Katashiro] (dates unknown)
  • signature: of artist; printed: 應需 廣重写 [oju Hiroshige sha]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.2014
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 022 / p. 52
  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 129
  • Marie Culver, "Surimono Analysis of Metals and Examination of Techniques Used in Japanese Prints" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1984), Unpublished, pp. 1-30 passim

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