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[FROM THE COLLECTION OF BENJAMIN EVERETT GILL] GROUP OF EIGHT JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
EDO PERIOD AND LATER
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
江戶及以後 各式版畫 鏡框（共八幅 ），含：
歌川広重 「六十余州名所図絵 安芸 厳島 祭礼之図」、歌川国貞 「末廣五十三次 四日市」、歌舞伎圖、「徳兵衛女房お辰」三代目岩井粂三郎 「団七九郎兵衛」四代目市川小団次 其一、歌川国芳 「山海名産盡」、歌川貞秀 戰爭圖、豊原国周 「小野頼風 河原崎権十郎」、歌川貞芳 歌舞伎圖
comprising: one by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), ‘Aki Province: Itsukushima, Depiction of a Festival (Aki, Itsukushima, Sairei no zu)’, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujûyoshû meisho zue), Edo Period; three by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864), ‘Yokkaichi', from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Fan [of the Tôkaidô Road] (Suehiro gojûsan tsugi), Edo Period, Kabuki Scene depicting actor Bando Mitsugoro III, and Centre of a triptych: Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Danshichi Kurobei, Morita Kan'ya XI as Tsuribune no Sabu (C); one by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), ‘Iyo Okoshi kamo-kari’ (Trapping Duck at Okoshi in Iyo Province) from series Sankai meisan zukushi (Every Kind of Notable Product of the Mountains and Seas), Tempo Era; one by Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873), possibly from a triptych depicting battle scene; one by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), kabuki Scene depicting Kawarazaki, Gonjuro I; one by Utagawa Sadayoshi (ac. 1837-53), a Kabuki Scene, all framed (8)
Dimensions
largest: 35cm x 23cm
Provenance
From the collection of Benjamin Everett Gill (1838-1901) from Aberdeen. Benjamin E Gill was a shipwright with Hall, Russell & Company. He built and sailed to Japan in 1869 on the Jho Sho Maru with Thomas Blake Glover who had commissioned the vessel. After they arrived in Nagasaki in January 1870, Thomas B Glover sold the boat to the Kumamoto Domain and that started the Japanese navy. A collection of Asian Art was brought back to Scotland by 1884 when Benjamin E Gill got married. The illustration shown Benjamin E Gill in Nagasaki in the early 1870s.
The collection was passed down by direct descent to the current owner's father and mother, Michael Peter Gill (1934-2015) and Shiona Airlie (1953-2023), and subsequently grew. Michael P Gill was the head of art at George Watson's College, and Shiona Airlie, who had a lifelong love of everything Chinese, its history, culture and language, was the author of Thistle and Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1989) and Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston (2012). Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston, KCMG, CBE was a Scottish diplomat and colonial official who served as the tutor and advisor to Puyi, the last emperor of China.