Cherry Blossoms at Night along the Sumida Embankment

Cherry Blossoms at Night along the Sumida Embankment

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Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(Japanese, 1797 - 1858)
Title
Cherry Blossoms at Night along the Sumida Embankment
Date
ca. 1850
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
370 x 756 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of Abigail Van Vleck
Accession No.
1984.917a
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

Collection of Mrs. J. Harriot Goodell (New Haven, CT); 1916, purchased by 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]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 120, no. 88

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