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- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858) - Title
- Five Vignettes from Popular Plays, from the series Harimaze Mirror of Kabuki Plays
- Date
- 3/1854
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 343 x 233 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Accession No.
- 1980.2006b
- 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]
- Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 172, no. 158
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