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Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

A work made of album leaves; ink and color on paper.
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  • A work made of album leaves; ink and color on paper.

Date:

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895/96

Artist:

Xugu 虛谷 (Chinese, 1823-1896)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Xugu

Title

Album of Landscapes and Calligraphy for Liu Songfu

Place

China (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1895–1896

Medium

Album leaves; ink and color on paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed by the artist on one leaf: [Painted] in the winter of the yiwei year, the twenty-first year of the Guangxu era [November 1895 – February 1896], Xugu

Dimensions

Each leaf: 30.5 × 36.3 cm (12 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair

Reference Number

1943.106.23

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