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Poem on Promulgating the Almanac at New Year’s

Wen Peng

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A long, vertical rectangle with a beige background. Many, many black, Chinese characters are written on it. The characters are written in rows. They are unevenly spaced. The top and bottom edges of the rectangle are straight. The left and right edges are uneven. The background rectangle has many wrinkles. A blank white border surrounds the rectangle on all sides.

Artwork details

Date:
undated
Medium:
Hanging scroll remounted as a panel; ink on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
304 × 625 px
Museum record:
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