Identification title(s): school of trout. Object type: print object number: rp-p-1984-15. Catalog reference: jap cat v 260. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228 collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2760 collector's mark, bottom left, stamped: lugt 2971. Description: five trout against a light blue background with a poem about the trout in the tama river. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: hiroshige (i), utagawa (mentioned on object) publisher: nishimura yohachi (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: print maker: japan - publisher: tokyo. Dating: 1830 - 1840. Physical characteristics: color woodcut; line block in black with color blocks; mica. Material: paper mica technique: color woodcut. Dimensions: sheet: h 251 mm × w 373 mm explanation 2nd edition publisher's stamp: eijodó (nishimuraya yohachi) 1st edition: suzuki, 1970, pl. 56 (trout brown, wood grain blue block visible). 2nd edition; like this magazine. Narazaki (studies in nature) pl. 57. Later: sale vever ii, 370/sloppier printing; break in bottom character signature, later edition: cat. Test. Hiroshige, new york, 1983 no. 7 and school of fish (character broken, also part of blue stream broken). Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1984. Date: between 1830 and 1840.
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