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Miniature Album

Prince Yongxing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Miniature Album by Prince Yongxing. The image shows an open book with two pages. The left page contains vertical black Chinese writing and one column of red Chinese writing. The right page depicts a landscape drawing of a mountain with a temple on top and trees on the side. The drawing is on beige paper with a thin reddish-brown border. Four black circles, one in each corner, hold the book in place on a beige background. A ruler with black, gray and white gradient sections is placed above the book.

Artwork Details

Medium
Album with nine paintings and nine leaves of calligraphy; ink and color on heavy paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 473 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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