Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures, and Animals:Picking Duckweed
Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures, and Animals:Picking Duckweed

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Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures, and Animals:Picking Duckweed,

1745

Fang Shishu, 1692–1751
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
y1962-111 a

Information

Title
Album of Landscapes, Plants, Figures, and Animals:Picking Duckweed
Dates

1745

Maker
Fang Shishu
Medium
Album leaf; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 23.3 x 27.7 cm. (9 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.) Calligraphy: 23.3 x 4.5 cm. (9 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.) Leaf: 63.2 x 40.2 cm. (24 7/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Professor Wen C. Fong, Class of 1951 and Graduate School Class of 1958, and Constance Tang Fong, in memory of Professor George Rowley
Object Number
y1962-111 a
Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription
dated 1745
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing
Type
albums, chinese painting styles, paintings
Subject
frogs, waterlilies, ponds

Picking Duckweed

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