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Clear View from the Hilltop at Atago in Shiba, from the series Famous Places in Edo

Clear View from the Hilltop at Atago in Shiba, from the series Famous Places in Edo

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Clear View from the Hilltop at Atago in Shiba, from the series Famous Places in Edo
Date
ca. 1845
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
224 x 348 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.1549
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to 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]

  • Chōnin: Japanese Art from the Elvehjem Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/1/2001–11/11/2001

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