Period:Qing dynasty Production date:c. 1735-c. 1750
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, gauffrage,
Subjects:insect,flower fruit
Dimensions:Height: 36.30 centimetres (Paper into which work is inlaid) Height: 40 centimetres (Royal mount) Height: 28.60 centimetres (image) Height: 28.70 centimetres (original paper) Width: 45.30 centimetres (Paper into which work is inlaid) Width: 55.10 centimetres (Royal mount) Width: 35.10 centimetres (image) Width: 37.70 centimetres (original paper)
Description:
Multicoloured woodblock print in ink on embossed paper A branch of white magnolia flowers reaches into the picture plane, complemented by crab apple blossoms. Two bees and a poem fill the upper left corner.
IMG
![图片[1]-print BM-1906-1128-0.16-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00091791_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1906-1128-0.16-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00248639_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-print BM-1906-1128-0.16-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00672279_001.jpg)
Comments:The natural appearance of the magnolia blossoms is achieved by fine colour gradations and the limited use of outlines and where the paper has been pressed with great force by a wooden burnisher into an un-inked cut block to create raised areas on the paper. The red colour of crab apple blossoms complements the colour scheme of white, green and blue. The print was designed by Ding Yingzong. In subject matter, composition and elegant calligraphy it resembles paintings in album format by Yun Shouping (1633–90) who was famous for his plant and flower paintings in subtle colour washes without outlines. Published: Binyon 1916, 39; Goepper 1973, 31
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, gauffrage,
Subjects:insect,flower fruit
Dimensions:Height: 36.30 centimetres (Paper into which work is inlaid) Height: 40 centimetres (Royal mount) Height: 28.60 centimetres (image) Height: 28.70 centimetres (original paper) Width: 45.30 centimetres (Paper into which work is inlaid) Width: 55.10 centimetres (Royal mount) Width: 35.10 centimetres (image) Width: 37.70 centimetres (original paper)
Description:
Multicoloured woodblock print in ink on embossed paper A branch of white magnolia flowers reaches into the picture plane, complemented by crab apple blossoms. Two bees and a poem fill the upper left corner.
IMG
Comments:The natural appearance of the magnolia blossoms is achieved by fine colour gradations and the limited use of outlines and where the paper has been pressed with great force by a wooden burnisher into an un-inked cut block to create raised areas on the paper. The red colour of crab apple blossoms complements the colour scheme of white, green and blue. The print was designed by Ding Yingzong. In subject matter, composition and elegant calligraphy it resembles paintings in album format by Yun Shouping (1633–90) who was famous for his plant and flower paintings in subtle colour washes without outlines. Published: Binyon 1916, 39; Goepper 1973, 31
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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)
