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Book of sketches for metalwork

(undated)
Medium/TechniqueSmall sketches pasted into a scrapbook; ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12.3 x 16.5 cm (4 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number2019.1145
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2019)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art 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 in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
Scrapbook of a house
Unidentified artist, 19th century
about 1870s
Jessie Marvin Herrick
about 1870
Various Artists, Japanese
1793 (Kansei 5)
19th century
Sketch 1068
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1911–12
19th century
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843
Page 1
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
mid–1830s
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843
Hara Yôyûsai
compiled around 1843