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Title

Meguro Drum Bridge and Sunset Hill, from the series One hundred famous views of Edo

1857

Artist

Hiroshige Andō/Utagawa

Japan

1797 – 1858

  • Details

    Other Title
    Taiko bridge, Meguro: evening snow
    Alternative title
    Meisho Edo hyakkei: Meguro Taikobashi Yûhinooka
    Place where the work was made
    Japan
    Period
    Ansei era 1854 - 1860 Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
    Date
    1857
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    woodblock print; ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    34.0 x 22.2 cm image; 36.2 x 24.4 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed l.r., in Japanese, ink, incised on block, "Hiroshige ga" [picture by Hiroshige]. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased 1961
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    DO14.1961
    Copyright

    Reproduction requests

    Artist information
    Hiroshige Andō/Utagawa

    Works in the collection

    26

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  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Japan

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 4 exhibitions

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 2 publications

    • Matthi Forrer, Hiroshige - Prints and Drawings, Munich, 1997, not paginated (colour illus.). cat. no.101

    • Jacqueline Menzies, The 4 seasons, 'An introduction to the art of China and Japan', not paginated., Sydney, 1989, (colour illus.) not paginated [chart].

Other works by Hiroshige Andō/Utagawa

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