Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

Masters of the Woodblock: Important Japanese Prints

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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

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70,000 - 100,000 GBP

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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.

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

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.