- Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) - Lot 128

- Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) Sakanoshita Gankutsu No Kannon/ Cave of the Kannon Goddesses Print with mokumezuri effect, using the veins of the stained wood as a motif. he Gojusan Tsugi Meisho Zue series, The Fifty-Three Famous Views of Tokaido. This is the 49th view. Date: July (7th moon) 1855, year of the hare. Signed Hiroshige hitsu. Aratame censor seal. Publisher Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido). Format oban tate-e: 37.1 x 25.2 cm Fine print. Colors slightly faded. Margins soiled. Hole in upper margin. Bibliography: Strange The color prints of Hiroshige 1925 London, p.154, 49 - Van Gogh Museum 92. 77 - Shiroishi 120. 49. Exhibition: L'Arte Antica, Silverio Salamon, Hiroshige Gojusan Tsugi Meisho Zue 16 mars - 20 mai 1995, Turin, p.48, 49 repr. coul. - Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) Miyako Sanjohashi. Gojugo Taibi/ Miyako, the great Sanjo bridge from the series Gojusan Tsugi Meisho Zue, The Fifty-Three Famous Views of Tokaido, in height. 55th view. Date: 1855, year of the Hare, second year of Ansei. Signed Hiroshige. Aratame censor seal. Publisher Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido). Format oban tate-e: 34 x 22.4 cm Good condition. Margins cut. Slight trace of a hole towards the top. Bibliography: E. F. Strange, The color prints of Hiroshige, London-New York 1925, 155.55 - Japanese prints collected by Vincent van Gogh Museum, Rijks an Gogh Museum Amsterdam 1978, 94.83 - T. Shiroishi, Hiroshige Tokaido Gojusanji, Tokyo 1989, 134.55 - S. Salamon, Hiroshige, Gojusan Tsugi Meisho Zue, L'Arte Antica Torino, Italy, March 16-May 20, 1995, p.50, 55 col. repr. (exhibition catalog). The set.