Utagawa Hiroshige and Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô)
Crab and Mackerel with Morning Glories
c. 1842
Scroll
- Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô)
Crab and Mackerel with Morning Glories
c. 1842
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut with mica, Sheet: 258 x 376 mm. (10 3/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Untitled set of selected fish (Great Fish)"
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
2012.178
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Joan B. Mirviss, New York, 2012; Brewster Hanson Collection, Geneva
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, "Approaching the Horizon: Important Japanese Prints from the Brewster Hanson Collection," March 15 - April 14, 2012.
Inscribed: Lower right: artist's signature, "Hiroshige ga" , and seal, "Ichiryusai"; censer's date seal; no publisher. Upper right: "Charybois; Scomber Japonicus//The fish market comes to life at dawn/like a great morning glory opening up."
