Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869) Tōkaidō Road (東海道), a vertical chuban album, 1867 Fifty six leaves, hardwood covers

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UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE II (1826-1869) Tōkaidō Road (東海道), a vertical chuban album, 1867 Fifty six leaves, hardwood covers. Each print 22.5cm (8 7/8in) high x 16.5cm (6 1/2in) wide. Footnotes: Provenance : Lovell Pennell (1840-1911), and thence by descent within the family Lovell Pennell was born in Dawlish, Devon. Around the age of twenty, he started work as a clerk at the Accountant General's Department of the India Office in Whitehall and rose to become Chief Clerk. The album was acquired around the time of publication during his travels in Japan.