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Fishing by Torchlight on Lake Hasu, One of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa in Kaga Province, no. 32 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces

Fishing by Torchlight on Lake Hasu, One of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa in Kaga Province, no. 32 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Fishing by Torchlight on Lake Hasu, One of the Eight Famous Places near Kanazawa in Kaga Province, no. 32 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces
Date
9/1855
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
ca. 245 x 230 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of Abigail Van Vleck
Accession No.
1984.657
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 (Cambridge, MA); 1980, passed through inheritance to John’s wife, Abigail P. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 1984, bequeathed to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 98

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