1933.4.2014: European Watch

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.2014

People

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, Japanese (1797 - 1858)

Title

European Watch

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print, surimono

Date

1823

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/207553

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and silver on paper

Dimensions

H. 21 x W. 19.2 cm (8 1/4 x 7 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: of poems; printed:
  はな鳥に
  春はそやされ
  千金と
  誰かねつけし
  宵の一刻
  —四半法否 [Shihan Hōhi] (dates unknown)
  紅毛の
  わたり物なれ
  春の日の
  あしのなかさを
  はかる土圭そ
  —八陣亭型城 [Hachijin-tei Katashiro] (dates unknown)
• signature: of artist; printed: 應需 廣重写 [oju Hiroshige sha]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.4.2014

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 022 / p. 52
• Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 129
• Marie Culver, "Surimono Analysis of Metals and Examination of Techniques Used in Japanese Prints" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1984), Unpublished, pp. 1-30 passim

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