painting; hanging scroll BM-1881-1210-0.1337

Period:Unknown Production date:1802-1816
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Height: 110.50 centimetres Width: 41.10 centimetres

Description:
Painting, hanging scroll, left scroll of pair with Jap.Ptg.927. Chinese-style landscape depicting agriculture in autumn and winter; villagers processing rice and being entertained by juggler and his monkey in foreground; three figures seated by water in middle-ground; rice-fields in background and mountains beyond. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
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Comments:’1337 &1338. Good paintings’ (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)