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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

Wang Gai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black and white landscape drawing of rocky mountains and trees on aged paper. The drawing takes up most of the page and is in a rounded rectangle shape with straight edges on the bottom. A body of water snakes through the bottom-left of the landscape. The water has two boulders and a small boat with a person in it. The mountains are shaded. There are two stamps to the left. The one on top is red and square shaped. The bottom stamp is red and circular. There are Chinese characters to the left of the stamps. The page is open to reveal a white background.

Artwork details

Date:
first edition printed in 1679
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 489 px
Museum record:
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