Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1619-1633
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:bird bamboo
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres (image) Height: 25.10 centimetres (paper) Width: 27 centimetres (image) Width: 27 centimetres (paper) Width: 27.20 centimetres
Description:
Multicoloured woodblock print on paper, depicting a bird preening on a rock.
IMG
![图片[1]-print BM-1930-1015-0.6-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_00091886_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1930-1015-0.6-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_00672284_001.jpg)
Comments:This album leaf is from the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting, one of the earliest picture collections in China to be printed in colour, and the first that successfully imitated the art of the brush. The manual is named after the Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing, the residence of the scholar Hu Zhengyan (1584–1674). Hu compiled calligraphy and paintings of past and contemporary scholar-artists and entrusted a team of skilled artisans with the carving and printing of these images in eight volumes. The page is among a group of prints in the British Museum that are considered to be among the earliest and finest imprints of existing versions from the original blocks.Published: Tschichold (1970), pl.21
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock
Subjects:bird bamboo
Dimensions:Height: 17 centimetres (image) Height: 25.10 centimetres (paper) Width: 27 centimetres (image) Width: 27 centimetres (paper) Width: 27.20 centimetres
Description:
Multicoloured woodblock print on paper, depicting a bird preening on a rock.
IMG
Comments:This album leaf is from the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting, one of the earliest picture collections in China to be printed in colour, and the first that successfully imitated the art of the brush. The manual is named after the Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing, the residence of the scholar Hu Zhengyan (1584–1674). Hu compiled calligraphy and paintings of past and contemporary scholar-artists and entrusted a team of skilled artisans with the carving and printing of these images in eight volumes. The page is among a group of prints in the British Museum that are considered to be among the earliest and finest imprints of existing versions from the original blocks.Published: Tschichold (1970), pl.21
© Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to the author, please keep the original link for reprinting.
THE END
