Period:Unknown Production date:1942
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Height: 89.80 centimetres (image) Height: 195.90 centimetres (mount (including roller and hanging cord)) Width: 43.40 centimetres (image) Width: 63.20 centimetres (mount (including roller))
Description:
Hanging scroll. Landscape. Painted in ink and colours on paper.
IMG
Comments:When Rangoon, the capital of Burma (today Myanmar), fell into Japanese hands on March 7, 1942, the Chinese government under General Chiang Kaishek dispatched armies to Burma. On the British side, General Noel Irwin (1892 – 1972) was transferred with his Corps to India in the same year. Irwin commanded the Eastern Army to defend the eastern frontier of India against the Japanese. According to the inscription on this painting, Luo Zhuoying (1896-1961), Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese expeditionary forces, presented General Noel Irwin with this landscape by Huang Junbi at Christmas time, 1942. Huang was teaching at the National Central University (Guoli zhongyang daxue) in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Height: 89.80 centimetres (image) Height: 195.90 centimetres (mount (including roller and hanging cord)) Width: 43.40 centimetres (image) Width: 63.20 centimetres (mount (including roller))
Description:
Hanging scroll. Landscape. Painted in ink and colours on paper.
IMG
Comments:When Rangoon, the capital of Burma (today Myanmar), fell into Japanese hands on March 7, 1942, the Chinese government under General Chiang Kaishek dispatched armies to Burma. On the British side, General Noel Irwin (1892 – 1972) was transferred with his Corps to India in the same year. Irwin commanded the Eastern Army to defend the eastern frontier of India against the Japanese. According to the inscription on this painting, Luo Zhuoying (1896-1961), Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese expeditionary forces, presented General Noel Irwin with this landscape by Huang Junbi at Christmas time, 1942. Huang was teaching at the National Central University (Guoli zhongyang daxue) in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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