Prosperity in the City During the Tanabata Festival, no. 73 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo

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]

• "SchoolsMusuemsART (SMART) Project." Madison, WI: Madison Metropolitan School District, 2002.
• Walker Art Center. "Tokyo: Form and Spirit." 1986. p. 20
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ando Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1982. p. 36, cat. no. 73
• Marks, Andreas. "Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition." Tuttle Publishing, 2024. pp. 296-297, no. 73.1
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 132

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

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