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Title

Fujieda: carrier changeover, from the series The fifty-three stations of the Tôkaidô Highway

1833-1834

Artist

Hiroshige Andô/Utagawa

Japan

1797 - 1858

An image of Fujieda: carrier changeover by Hiroshige Andô/Utagawa

Details

Other Title

53 Stations Tokaido Highway (Fujieda)

Alternative title

Tôkaidô gojûsan-tsugi no uchi Fujieda jinba tsugitate

Place where the work was made

Japan

Date

1833-1834

Media category

Print

Materials used

woodblock print; ink and colour on paper

Dimensions

22.5 x 35.6 cm image; 24.6 x 36.4 cm sheet

Signature & date

Signed l.r., in Japanese, ink, incised on block "Hiroshige ga [picture by Hiroshige]". Not dated.

Credit

Purchased 1952

Location

Not on display

Accession number

8669

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Artist information

Hiroshige Andô/Utagawa

Works in the collection

26

Place

Where the work was made
Japan
Shown in 3 exhibitions

Exhibition history

Referenced in 2 publications

Bibliography

Dennis Colsey, Hand and eye - a survey of artists materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Sydney, 1969, (illus.). cat.no. 47

The Japan Ukiyo-e Academy (Editor) and SAKAI Nobuo (Editor in Chief), Hiroshige: Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan shozô, Japan, 19 Mar 1994, 64 (illus.). plate no.23