HISHIKAWA SORI III (active c. 1797-1813)UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

HISHIKAWA SORI III (active c. 1797-1813) UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

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HISHIKAWA SORI III (active c. 1797-1813)
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
A surimono depicting a peasant lady nursing her child beside a stream, a lady in kimono standing behind her, signed Hishikawa Sori ga; and Yamato Noji [The Noji Jewel River in Yamato Province] from the series Mu Tamagawa no uchi [Six Jewel Rivers], signed Hiroshige ga, c.1835
18.6 x 13.8cm. and tanzaku (37.3 x 12.8cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

For another impression of the first see Roger Keyes, The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese Woodblock Prints and Books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, (London, 1985), vol.II, p.379, no.331

For another impression of the second in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts see www.mfa.org accession number 21.7094

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