Amerika nigiwai no zu,Hiroshige Utagawa,Photo,Japanese,American Town Square
Title: Amerika nigiwai no zu
Picture of flourishing America.
Creator(s): Utagawa, Hiroshige, 1826?-1869, artist
Date Created/Published: Japan : Yamajin (Yamashiroya Jinbei), 1861.
Summary: Japanese triptych print showing supposed view of an American town square, with people walking around, although the source for the architecture was an illustration of the Fredericksburg Castle near Copenhagen that appeared in the March 7, 1860, issue of the Illustrated London news.
Notes:
Title from item.
Signature: Hiroshige
Images of the western world.
Annotations, stamps, etc., on verso of print: 4.
The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substance / essays by Sandy Kita ... [et al.]. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Yokohama ukiyoe : Reflection of the cultures of Yokohama in days of the port opening / Tsuneo Tamba. [Japan : 1962]
Earlier control number: 4162.
Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a).
Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints.
Exhibited: 'The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances,' organized by the Library of Congress, 2001.
Exhibited: From Whistler to Wedgwood, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, 2010.
Source of name (700): LCNA; there are 2 700s, which one is it? Assigned to Hiroshige II based on information from LC exhibit website.
Subjects:
Americans--Clothing & dress--1860-1870.
City & town life--1860-1870.
Triptychs--Japanese--Color--1860-1870.
Woodcuts--Japanese--Color--1860-1870.
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