Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)

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Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流),

1641

Huang Daozhou 黃道周, 1585–1646
Chinese
Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
1998-68

Information

Title
Trees and Bamboo by a Stream (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流)
Dates

1641

Maker
Huang Daozhou 黃道周
Medium
Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 28 × 171.6 cm (11 × 67 9/16 in.) mount: 34.5 cm. (13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-68
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
signed
Inscription
Title: “Trees and Bamboo by a Stream” (Lin zhu xi liu 林竹溪流) Seals: Artist’s – (3) “Xizun” vertical rectangular yang (at beginning of inscription) “Huang Daozhou yin” square yin (at signature, upper) “Yu-ping” square yang (at signature, lower) Collectors’ – (8 on painting) Title slip: Text: “Ming Huang Zhongduan gong shanshui zhenji Signed “Panzhai zhencang” Seal – (1) Colophons: Wu Yongwei (unknown), undated, 1 seal Chiling § (zhuren 1837), dated jiazi (1864), 2 seals
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist, "Xizun" 細遵, tall rectangular relief, at beginning of inscription Artist, "Huang Daozhou yin" 黃道周印, square intaglio, at signature, upper Artist, "Youping" 幼平, square relief, at signature, lower Zhongguo shuhuajia yin jian kuan zhi 中國書畫家印鑑款識 (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1987), pp. 1152-54. Collectors' seals (8 on painting)
Culture
Chinese
Period
Ming
Type
paintings, scroll paintings, handscrolls
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink
Subject
groves, trees, men, figures (representations), bamboo, huts, streams

–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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