Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints
Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints
Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) | Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi) | Edo period, 19th century
Lot Closed
July 21, 01:17 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection (Lots 1 - 17, All Formerly in the Collection of Henri Vever)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), signed Hiroshige ga (Pictured by Hiroshige), censor’s seal aratame (examined), published by Uoya Eikichi, 9th month 1857; with collector's seal H.V., with original Sotheby's paper sale folder depicting Henri Vever monogram
Vertical oban: 37.3 x 25.3 cm., 14⅝ x 10 in.
Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints from the Henri Vever Collection: Final Part, 30 October 1997, Lot 192.
Jack Hillier, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection, (London, 1976), vol. 3, no. 942 (without margins).
Jack Hillier, Suzuki Juzo and Adachi Toyohisa, Ukiyo-e: Beberu korekushon (Ukiyo-e Prints from the Vever Collection), (Tokyo, 1976), no. 738.
Pari Beberu korekushon, ukiyo-e meisaku 300 senten (300 Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the Vever Collection, exhibited at the following venues:
Keio Department Store, Tokyo, 4th - 15th January 1975
Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, 6th - 18th February 1975
Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, 21st - 26th April 1975