Travellers Crossing a Bridge, Totoya Hokkei, 1824

Title(s)

Travellers Crossing a Bridge

Object type

Object number

RP-P-1958-343

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 325
• Jap Cat III 186

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, passe-partout, bottom left, printed: JABdH with a rooster.
• collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228

Description

Brug in het gebergte en ondergaande zon. Over de brug een man te paard gevolgd door drie reizigers. Het is de bekende Apen brug (Saruhashi) die over de Katsura rivier ligt op de Kôshûkaidô weg. Deze prent is dan ook gemaakt ter ere van het nieuwe jaar van de aap. Met twee gedichten.

Artist

• print maker: Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object)
• Gurendô Nakakubo (mentioned on object)

Place

Japan

Dating

1824

Physical features

nishikie, with blindprinting

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 176 mm × width 159 mm

What

• mountains (+ landscape with figures, staffage)

Credit line

• J.A. Bierens de Haan Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1958

Copyright

Public domain

• Edo no surimono : ikijintachi no okurimono, cat.nr. 286
• Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Matthi Forrer, p. 179, cat.nr. 325
• Surimono : stampe augurali nel Giappone del '700 e '800, Helena Markus, cat.nr. 16
• Hokusai and his school : Japanese prints, c.1800-1840, Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, p. 102-103, cat.nr. 186
• Japanese prints and drawings from the Vever collection, Jack Ronald Hillier, cat.nr. 764
• Catalogue of the Japanese paintings and prints in the collection of Mr & Mrs Richard P. Gale, Jack Ronald Hillier, Richard P. Gale, cat.nr. 254
• A catalogue of Japanese & Chinese woodcuts preserved in the sub-department of Oriental prints and drawings in the British Museum, Laurence Binyon, p. 362, cat.nr. 2
• Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Paintings, Sotheby's (Londen), 1988-12-15, cat.nr. 340.
• Masterpieces of Ukiyoe from the Pulverer Collection (Doitsu Puruveraaa korekushon ukiyoe hanga meihinten), dl. 2, Tokyo 1990, cat.nr. 54.