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- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858) - Title
- Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Shozoku Hackberry Tree in Oji, no. 118 from the series One-hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo
- Date
- 9/1857
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 335 x 220 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Accession No.
- 1980.1703
- 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. 51, cat. no. 118
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 136
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