Traveling by Moonlight, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital

Artist/Maker Utagawa Hiroshige I 初代目歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Datelate 1830s

MediumColor woodblock print

DimensionsOverall: 14 × 14 1/2 in. (35.6 × 36.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Sarah G. Epstein (OC 1948)

PortfolioFamous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho)

Object number1997.41.76

Status

Not on view

ProvenanceSarah G. Epstein, Washington, DC; by gift 1997 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH

Collections

Asian

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