Ando Hiroshige
No.1 Nihonbashi: View of Dawn Clouds

ArtistJapanese, 1797–1858
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • No.1 Nihonbashi: View of Dawn Clouds
  • Uchi Nihonbashi Shinonome no kei
  • from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)
Date1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month
PlaceJapan
MediumWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
DimensionsSheet: 14 1/16 × 9 1/4 in. (35.7 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Stephen Hamilton in memory of Ann L. and Leslie A. Hamilton
Object number2006.602
Not on view

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
ProvenanceFrom the complete set of Upright Tokaido prints formerly in the collection of Prof. Arthur Wesley Dow, Teachers College, Columbia University (1857-1922). Dow’s collection of his own work together with his collection of Japanese prints was offered for sale by the American Art Galleries, New York City, in March 1923.

Purchased by Stephen Hamilton from Merlin C. Dailey, 29 East Main Street, Victor, New York 14564, (Tel. 585-924-5830), April 2005


Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil recto upper right: "3"
Marked in pencil recto upper center margin: "#1 - (?)print Tokaido (?)"
Marked in pencil verso lower left: "3."

Censor seal: Aratame

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