Master Cheng’s Admonition on Seeing, Hearing, Words, and Deeds
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.清 鄧石如 隷書程子視聽言動之箴 四條屏 紙本
In his final years, Deng Shiru’s clerical script took on the character you see here, with thick powerful lines of almost unvarying thickness. This work, made the year Deng died, is a transcription of an eleventh-century text by the Neo-Confucian Cheng Yi (1033–1107).
In his final years, Deng Shiru’s clerical script took on the character you see here, with thick powerful lines of almost unvarying thickness. This work, made the year Deng died, is a transcription of an eleventh-century text by the Neo-Confucian Cheng Yi (1033–1107).
Artwork Details
- 清 鄧石如 隷書程子視聽言動之箴 四條屏 紙本
- Title: Master Cheng’s Admonition on Seeing, Hearing, Words, and Deeds
- Calligrapher: Deng Shiru (Chinese, 1743–1805)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 1805
- Culture: China
- Medium: Set of four hanging scrolls; ink on paper
- Dimensions: Image (each scroll): 64 5/8 × 16 3/4 in. (164.1 × 42.5 cm)
Overall with mounting (each scroll): 79 1/4 × 18 3/4 in. (201.3 × 47.6 cm) - Classification: Calligraphy
- Credit Line: Lent by Guanyuan Shanzhuang Collection
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art