painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.177
- Description
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Painting, unmounted. Chinese scholar and female attendants. Copy from an unknown original. Ink and colour on paper. Signed.
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 161.60 centimetres
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Width: 106.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1881,1210,0.177
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1028 (Japanese Painting Number)