print
- Museum number
- 1928,0323,0.18
- Title
- Object: Beauty with Child; 美人和孩童; Meiren he haitung
- Description
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Multicoloured woodblock print on paper, some colour dabbed and applied with stencils.
In a gesture, a lady on a blue garden rock opens her arms to a little boy. The child is presenting her with an animal that appears to be either a cicada or a little frog.
- Production date
- c. 1690-c. 1720
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.70 centimetres (Original paper)
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Height: 55.80 centimetres (Royal mount- Portrait)
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Height: 31.90 centimetres (paper work is hinged to)
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Width: 30 centimetres (Paper work is hinged to)
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Width: 40.60 centimetres (Royal mount- Portrait)
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Width: 19.70 centimetres (original paper)
- Curator's comments
- The red folds of the lady’s garment are emphasised by strokes of an intense colour. These seem to have been dabbed on the paper with the use of stencils, achieving the effect of a painted brushstroke. This applied technique can be seen in a number of prints on the right. Comparable motifs appear on porcelain plates from the Kangxi period.
YPL 29 Oct 2019
Previously dated 1644-1753
1928,0323,0.12-42 dating all changed to ca. 1690-1720 based on advice from Anne Farrer
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 May-Sep, BM, Dept of Asia, The Printed Image in China
2012 5th May -29th July, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘The Printed Image in China’
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Library where this print formed part of the Sloane manuscript album 5293.
Register of the Department of Prints and Drawings entry for 23 March 1928 records thirty-one Chinese woodcuts (1928,0323,0.12-0.42) coming from “Sloane albums [Add.] 5292 and 5293…collected by James Cunningham, surgeon to the E. India Co. in Amoy and Chusan, 1698-1702.” However, according to research by Dr Anne Farrer, no other textual evidence has so far been found to confirm this provenance.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1928,0323,0.18
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SL.5293.407