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The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual (Japanese reprint) 芥子園畫傳

Wang Gai 王槩

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with two pages facing upwards. The pages are yellowed and have a rectangular border around the edges. Each page contains three black and white drawings of trees with bare branches and thick trunks. The trees on the left page are positioned side by side, and the trees on the right page are also positioned side by side. There is Chinese text written in black ink at the top of each page and down the right and left side of each page. The background of the image is white.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1753
Medium
Set of five woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 400 px
Public Domain
Yes
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