Name: Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) Utagawa Yoshikazu (act. c. 1848-1863) Att. To Utagawa Hiroshige II
Brand: FOUR YOKOHAMA WOODBLOCK PRINTS
Price: 500.00 GBP
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Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873)
Utagawa Yoshikazu (active circa 1848-1863)
Attributed to Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826–1869)
Four Yokohama woodblock prints
Life Drawings of People of Foreign Nations: Russians Raising Sheep for Wool (Ikiutsushi ikoku jinbutsu: Roshiajin rashayo kau no zu), signed Gountei Sadahide ga, published by Yamaguchiya Tobei, 1860

A Foreigner Studying at Night (Gaikokujin yogaku no zu), signed Issen Yoshikazu ga, published by Maruya Jinpachi, 1860

English Merchants Enjoying a Stroll on a Rest-day in Yokohama (Yokohama Eisho yuko), signed Gountei Sadahide ga, published by Tsujiokaya Bunsuke, 1861 (one sheet of a triptych)

French Woman, Her Child and Pet Dog, attributed to Hiroshige II, published by Joshuya Juzo, 1860
All vertical oban:
Each sheet approx. 35.3 x 24.4cm.

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For further reading in Japanese and an additional impression of the first in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Japan, go to http://ch.kanagawa-museum.jp/dm/ukiyoe/yokohama/fuzoku/d_fuzoku04.html

For another impression of the second in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 2005.537 go to www.mfa.org/collections

For another impression of the second in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, accession number 2007.49.154, go to http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/73440

For the complete triptych of the third in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1948,0410,0.116.1-3, go to http://www.britishmuseum.org/research