Listening to insects on Dokan Hill, from the series Thirty-six Examples of the Pride of Edo

30 August 1926, purchased from a dealer on Rue Bonaparte (Paris, France) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Chronicle Books. The Floating World: Hiroshige and Edo Culture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. p. 40-41, pl. 12
• Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 177, no. 165
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 203

• Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 : Chazen Museum of Art, 3/21/2008–6/15/2008

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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