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| Artist: | Hiroshige 1 Ando (1797-1858, Utagawa) — 歌川広重 |
| Title: | The Bell Deeps on the Ayase River |
| Series: | 100 Views of Famous Places in Edo [oban tateye] — 名所江戸百景 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1856-1859 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1920s (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uoya Eikichi |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Hasegawa — 長谷川 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 43855 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| 69. The Bell Deeps on the Ayase River |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
HIROSHIGE
Ayase River and Kanegafuchi
Number 63 from the series 100 Famous Views of Edo
Date: originally published 7/1857, this published by Hasegawa c. 1920, listed as number #316 in the 1930 Hasegawa catalog
Size: oban, approx. 10.5" x 15.5"
Condition: Very Good, no flaws, on time toned older paper
Impression: Fine, unusual variant edition with mountains added to the background and the tree removed from the left foreground. Other elements such as the full moon have also been added, but the basic foreground and middle ground landscape, as well as the man poling his raft remain the same. Compare the the Brooklyn set #63.
Color: Fine, deep saturated color, and bleed through to verso (see scans)
Documentation: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Brazillier, 1986, print 63 |
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