Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 24387

Important and rare original painting of a peacock ( Pavo cristatus ) perched on a rock with peony...

Artist / 作者
Utagawa Hiroshige歌川広重
Date / 年代
1841
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録
2048 × 1536 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者
紫藤メイ
Rights / 権利
No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

An excessively rare original sketch-book with MS. Diary at the end recording the last part of a trip Hiroshige started April 2nd 1841 from Edo to Kofu, this covering Nov. 13th? Nov. 22nd 1841. Sumi on paper vigorously drawn and annotated with names and memoranda in Hiroshige?s writing. 7.75 x 5 inches containing 38 pages, two blank, with inscription on cover:?Memories of Travel?.In slip-case inscribed HIROSHIGE/K.M.C. ( presumably the owner after Dr. J. Hutchinson ). Ex collections Mr Wilson Crewdson and then Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson FRCS ( vice-president Council of the Japan Society, London ). This diary is fully discussed and catalogued in The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige, Edward F. Strang…

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