Currently not on view
Asking for Snow Water,
1740
Wang Shishen 汪士慎, 1686 - 1759
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
y1979-13
Information
Title
Asking for Snow Water
Dates
1740
Maker
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 91 x 26.8 cm. (35 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Painting/Calligraphy: 212.4 x 62.8 cm. (83 5/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
Mount: 247 x 79.9 cm. (97 1/4 x 31 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Elliott
Object Number
y1979-13
Place Made
Asia, China
Inscription
y
Marks/Labels/Seals
Twelve characters in ink on label adhered to edge of rolled scroll
Culture
Period
- Alfreda Murck, "Wang Shi-shen's "Asking for Snow Water": Tributes to a Tea Drinker, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 2 (1978): 2–30.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1979," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 39, no. 1/2 (1980): p. 40-63., p. 49
- Suzuki, Kei, comp. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku, vol. 1 of Amerika-Kanada hen. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982., A17–072
- Wen C. Fong, Images of the mind: selections from the Edward L. Elliott family and John B. Elliott collections of Chinese calligraphy and painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984)., cat. no. 42
