Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River

Arts of Asia

c. 1784

Torii Kiyonaga
Japanese, 1752-1815

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Torii Kiyonaga
Title: Summer Twilight on the Banks of the Sumida River
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1779–1789
Medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right sheet: 1925.2657)
Inscriptions: Signature: Kiyonaga ga Publisher: No imprint
Dimensions: 37.9 × 25.9 cm (14 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1925.2656
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Chiba City Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), no. 110

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853–1908), Boston; by descent to his wife, Sidney McCall (1865–1954; born Mary McNeill, also Mary McNeil Fenollosa), Boston, 1908; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; by descent to his sister, Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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