Andô/Utagawa HIROSHIGE
(Japan 1797–1858)
- Title
- Awazu: clearing weather, from the series Eight views of Lake Biwa
- Alternative title:
- Ômi hakkei no uchi: Awazu seiran
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Tenpo era 1830 - 1844 → Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- circa 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
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Ôban yoko-e: 22.5 x 34.9cm image; 25.1 x 36.9cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed u.l, in Japanese, ink, incised on block "Hiroshige ga" [picture by Hiroshige]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1961
- Accession number
- DO12.1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (1)
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Matthi Forrer (Author), Hiroshige - Prints and Drawings, Munich, 1997, not paginated (colour illus.). cat. no.74
- Exhibition history (2)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962.
Japanese Woodcuts, Newcastle City Art Gallery, 28 Jun 1968–28 Jul 1968.
