hanging scroll;
painting;
forgery
- Museum number
- 1913,0501,0.295
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. View at Kanagawa: travellers pausing to rest at roadside stall in valley lined with maples displaying autumn foliage. Ink and colour on paper. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 37.60 centimetres
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Width: 46.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Clark 1992
The ascribed title is 'View at Kanagawa', and travellers are shown pausing to rest at a roadside stall in a valley lined with maples displaying brilliant autumn foliage. The forger has taken the style of Hiroshige's pocket sketch-books and blown the composition up into hanging-scroll size, something Hiroshige himself never did. The forms of the figures are in any case too spindly and not accurately rendered. Neither signature nor seal corresponds with those on genuine paintings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings belonging to Arthur Morrison was purchased by Sir William Gwynne-Evans, who presented it to the British Museum in 1913.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1913,0501,0.295
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1549 (Japanese Painting Number)
