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Illustrated Six-Character Poems of the Tang Dynasty, one volume of Eight Kinds of Painting Manuals (vol. 1); Illustrated Poems of Plants and Flowers, one volume of Eight Kinds of Painting Manuals (vol. 2)

Cai Chonghuan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Open book with two pages showing. The left page contains a black and white drawing of a tree on a rocky outcropping with a body of water. The right page contains black text written in a foreign language, likely Chinese, arranged in vertical lines. The book is old and worn with yellowed pages and visible signs of aging. The book sits on a white surface against a gray wall.

Artwork Details

Date
dated 1621, first edition
Medium
Two volumes of woodblock-printed books; ink on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 450 px
Public Domain
Yes
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