Period:Qing dynasty Production date:c. 1690-c. 1720
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden
Dimensions:Height: 36 centimetres (Paper work is hinged to) Height: 55.70 centimetres (Royal mount- Portrait) Height: 26 centimetres (original paper) Width: 38.50 centimetres (Paper work is hinged to) Width: 40.60 centimetres (Royal mount- portrait) Width: 28.50 centimetres (original paper)
Description:
Multi-coloured woodblock print on paper, some colour dabbed and applied with stencils Yang Guifei, depicted with a scholar-official in a flower garden. The figure behind her may be the emperor himself.
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![图片[1]-print BM-1928-0323-0.33-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00098211_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1928-0323-0.33-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00711821_001.jpg)
Comments:Yang Guifei was the famous concubine of the Tang emperor Minghuang, who ruled from AD 713 to 756. The emperor’s passion for Yang Guifei, her beauty and fondness for peony flowers, as well as her tragic death made her the subject of novels, operas, poems and paintings as well as prints. As in ‘Beauty with Child’ (1928,0323,0.18), some colour appears to have been dabbed by hand and applied with stencils giving it the texture of brushstrokes.YPL 29 Oct 2019Previously dated 1644-17531928,0323,0.12-42 dating all changed to ca. 1690-1720 based on advice from Anne Farrer
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:garden
Dimensions:Height: 36 centimetres (Paper work is hinged to) Height: 55.70 centimetres (Royal mount- Portrait) Height: 26 centimetres (original paper) Width: 38.50 centimetres (Paper work is hinged to) Width: 40.60 centimetres (Royal mount- portrait) Width: 28.50 centimetres (original paper)
Description:
Multi-coloured woodblock print on paper, some colour dabbed and applied with stencils Yang Guifei, depicted with a scholar-official in a flower garden. The figure behind her may be the emperor himself.
IMG
Comments:Yang Guifei was the famous concubine of the Tang emperor Minghuang, who ruled from AD 713 to 756. The emperor’s passion for Yang Guifei, her beauty and fondness for peony flowers, as well as her tragic death made her the subject of novels, operas, poems and paintings as well as prints. As in ‘Beauty with Child’ (1928,0323,0.18), some colour appears to have been dabbed by hand and applied with stencils giving it the texture of brushstrokes.YPL 29 Oct 2019Previously dated 1644-17531928,0323,0.12-42 dating all changed to ca. 1690-1720 based on advice from Anne Farrer
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
