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A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan

Huang Zujiu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a landscape drawing of rocky cliffs and mountains. The drawing is in black ink on aged paper. The mountains are drawn with many vertical lines to indicate texture. There are trees on the mountains. There are buildings at the base of the cliffs. The sky appears hazy. There is a border around the drawing. In the top-right corner, there is a column of Chinese characters written vertically. Below them are two red seals. To the left of the image, there is more writing vertically.

Artwork Details

Date
first edition printed in 1679
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
390 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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