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- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858) - Title
- The Yodo River, from the series Famous Places in Kyoto
- Date
- ca. 1835
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- ca. 222 x 355 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Accession No.
- 1980.1267
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- Japan
Related
Purchased from Metzgar sale (No. 166) by Gilbert Fuller (Boston, MA); by 1918, acquired by Lucy F. Brown (New York, NY); 3 July 1918, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 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. 9
- 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. 90
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 89
- 200th Anniversary Hiroshige Exhibition (Hiroshige ten: seiten 200-shunen kinen): Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/29/1996–12/8/1996
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