painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1896
- Description
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Painting, unmounted hanging scroll. Coastal landscape: ships on bay and figures on quay, surrounded with mountains. Gabled stains at top. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1854-60 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.10 centimetres
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Width: 60.20 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Clark 1992
Though well composed to give a sense of deep space to this coastal panorama, the rough and somewhat rudimentary level of technique - seen, for instance, in the scrubby dotting to suggest vegetation on the distant hills - raises doubts as to whether this work was actually painted by Hiroshige I. It bears a damaged, but apparently authentic signature, and the seal is found on at least one fine 'bijin' painting ('Kobijutsu', suppl. vol. 3 (March 1983), painting no. 3), so it must be concluded that Hiroshige I has 'authorised' the work of a pupil, possibly Hiroshige II (nos 143-5).
Like nos 140, 142 and 143 the painting must have originally been intended for a frame with a gabled top. The location of the view has not been identified.
Literature:
Anderson, William, 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum'. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1886, no. 1896.
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'1896 is by Hiroshigé the Second.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1976 16 Jan-28 Mar, BM Oriental Gallery II, 'Japanese Paintings & Prints - The Maruyama/Shijo School’
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.1896
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1562 (Japanese Painting Number)
