hanging scroll;
painting;
forgery
- Museum number
- 1913,0501,0.296
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Waterfall; trees and rocks in foreground. Ink on silk. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 49.50 centimetres
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Width: 67.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Clark 1992
The work is not in a style used by Hiroshige, and the signature 'Hiroshige ga' was used almost exclusively on his woodblock prints, never on paintings of any but his earliest period of activity. The seal (which is impressed crooked) is not otherwise recorded.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings belonging to Arthur Morrison was purchased by Sir William Gwynne-Evans, who presented it to the British Museum in 1913.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1913,0501,0.296
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1550 (Japanese Painting Number)
