hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.87.CH
- Title
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Object: Portrait of an official in front of the Beijing Forbidden City
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Object: 明代宮城圖
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Object: 天下朝觐官陛辞图
- Description
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Hanging scroll. Portrait of an official in front of the Forbidden City. Painted in ink and colours on silk. Signature and seal.
- Production date
- 1522-1566 (Jiajing reign)
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 centimetres (image)
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Height: 197 centimetres (scroll)
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Width: 110.80 centimetres (image)
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Width: 114.50 centimetres (scroll)
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- Curator's comments
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See Roderick Whitfield, 'Some Che School Paintings in the British Museum, 'Burlington Magazine', May 1972, pp. 285-294.
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'87. Excellent work.'
'Imperial Tomb.' 'Apotheosis?' 'Seal, Chu Pang (H.C.1500)'
'Fēng-Ch'i 豐嵠' (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- On display (G33)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Sep-2015 Jan, BM WCEC, 'Ming: 50 years that changed China'
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.87.CH
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Ch.Ptg.144 (Chinese Painting Number)