handscroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.96.CH
- Title
- Object: Baizitu 百子圖 (The Hundred Children)
- Description
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Long handscroll of 100 boys engaged in various activities and playing games. Title calligraphy (Baizitu 百子圖) at begnning is signed. Five colophons at end. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 1700-1800
- Dimensions
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Length: 309 inches
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Width: 9.50 inches
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- Curator's comments
- 'artist unknown.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- 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
- 1881,1210,0.96.CH
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Ch.Ptg.157 (Chinese Painting Number)
