Dangerous Surf below the Satta Pass near Yui, no. 17 from the series Pictures of the Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (Vertical Tokaido)

1921, purchased from Judson Metzgar (Los Angeles, CA and Moline, IL) 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]

• Schlombs, Adele. "Hiroshige: 1797-1858." Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2007. p. 60
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 85
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Hiroshige ten: Seitan 200-shunen kinen (200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition)." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art; Japan: Bun You Associates, 1996. no. 31

• 200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition (Hiroshige ten: seiten 200-shunen kinen): Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/29/1996–12/8/1996
• Tōkaidō: Nineteenth-Century Japanese Landscape Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 12/13/1986–2/8/1987

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

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