UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858), AND OTHERS

EDO AND MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

A collection of Japanese woodblock prints depicting landscapes, the first entitled Kameido ume yashiki no zu (Plum Garden at Kamido), from the series Toto Meisho (Famous Places in the Eastern Capital), signed Hiroshige ga, oban yoko-e, 25.2cm x 36.2cm; the second entitled Wada, from the series Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi (The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road), signed Hiroshige ga, oban yoko-e, 35.8cm x 23.8cm; together with twenty other woodblock prints of landscapes. (22)

Provenance: from the collection of French sculptor Gaston de Luppé (1872-1939), and thence by descent.