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Precincts of the Tenjin Shrine at Kameido (Kameido Tenjin keidai), no. 57 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

Precincts of the Tenjin Shrine at Kameido (Kameido Tenjin keidai), no. 57 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Precincts of the Tenjin Shrine at Kameido (Kameido Tenjin keidai), no. 57 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Date
7/1856
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
342 x 224 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.1637
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]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 31, cat. no. 57
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 130

  • Splendors of Edo: Japanese Prints, 1750-1930: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 8/7/1999–10/10/1999
  • Color Woodcuts by Hiroshige from the Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/23/1995–10/22/1995

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