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Volume III, Page 20

Drawings (hanshita-e) for a three-volume picturebook, possibly The Great Picture Book of Everything

(Japanese, 1760–1849)
about 1820s–40s
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 13.8 x 20.4 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit LineSource unidentified
Accession number1998.670.1-3
On View
On view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1966, registered in MFA ledgers; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA between about 1890 and 1903.