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- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858) - Title
- Fuchū with a Distant View of the Abe River, no. 20 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Gyōsho Tōkaidō)
- Date
- ca. 1840-1845
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- ca. 198 x 319 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Accession No.
- 1980.919
- 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]
- Addiss, Stephen, Ed. "Japanese Ghosts & Demons: Art of the Supernatural." New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1985. p. 110, no. 66
- Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 6/13/1985–9/14/1986
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