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Ando Hiroshige Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
The complete One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Mt. Fuji and Mt. Ashigara from Numazu, woodblock print, 1855
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Large number of prints online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
7 works from the Princeton University Art Museum collection
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Yase Village, from the series Famous Places in Kyoto, woodblock print, ca.1835
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Kanaya, from Famous Views of the Fifty-three Stations, woodblock print, ca.1855
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
Great reproductions from 2 series of Hiroshige prints
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
New Year's Eve, Fox Fires by the Nettle Tree at Oji
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Many prints online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
5 works online
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Rough Sea at Naruto in Awa Province, 1855
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
No. 57, Grounds of Kameido Tenjin Shrine
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
From One Hundred Views of Edo
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Select the artist from the drop-down list
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Note that the JPG images are displayed smaller than their actual size
Hammer Museum, California
Light rain at Shono
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Horikiri Iris Garden
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, Pennsylvania
Teppozu, Fox Bridge, Minato Shirne (note that actual JPG image is larger than displayed on the page)
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
18 prints online; select "Utagawa Hiroshige" from the drop-down list and click "Search"
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
5 works online
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Rain-storm in the Mountains
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
2 scenes from Chushingura: Revenge of the 47 Samurai
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Ando Hiroshige at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
Tobacco & Salt Museum, Tokyo
4 prints from The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Mt. Fuji from Yasuda Shimoza, 1858
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
2 prints online
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
12 prints online
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Der Pflaumengarten von Kameido
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Ryogoku in the Eastern Capital (Edo)
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Hiroshige"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Artelino Ukiyo-e Signatures
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists
Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Ando Hiroshige at The Art Renewal Center
Ando Hiroshige at The Artchive
Ando Hiroshige in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ando Hiroshige at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige
Remarkable site with hundreds of scans online
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
19th Century
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Agematsu
The plum blossom garden at Kameido
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Ichimuraza theater
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ando Hiroshige 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Artnet Magazine
Yoroi Ferry, 1857
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Chronicler of a floating world", 2007 article by Adrian Searle
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
Hiroshige: Japan's Great Landscape Artist
look inside
Hiroshige Fan Prints
look inside
Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings
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