Lot 230
230
Utagawa Yoshitora (active about 1850-1880)
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Utagawa Yoshitora (active about 1850-1880)

THE CITY OF PARIS, FRANCE, FROM THE SERIES FAMOUS PLACES ABROAD

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Utagawa Yoshitora (active about 1850-1880)
The city of Paris, France, from the series Famous Places Abroad
Signed Yoshitora, dated 1862, very good impression, colours and condition
Oban triptych, 14½ x 29½in. (37 x 75cm.)
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Lot Essay

As in some previous Lots the links with reality are tenuous: the harbour appears to be that of Marseilles, and the accompanying text by the author Kanagaki Robun tells that the city of Paris has a great castle by the ocean surmounted by a gold statue of the founder king and that the nation has enjoyed a great revival thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte. Another impression is illustrated in Yokohama Kenritsu Hakubutsukan [Yokohama Prefectural Museum], Yokohama ukiyo-e (Yokohama, 1979), p. 100.

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