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清 詩午閑人 瀟湘八景詩畫 冊
Title:Eight Landscape Scenes and Calligraphy
Artist:Unidentified artist Chinese, 19th century
Period:Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date:19th century
Culture:China
Medium:Album of twenty-two leaves; ink and wash on paper
Dimensions:13 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (34.9 x 24.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Seymour Fund, 1955
Object Number:55.15.2
Inscription: Artist’s inscriptions and signatures
Leaf C
Left: 2 columns in semi-cursive script, dated 1839:
It is in the Qinghe (fourth lunar) month of the jihai year (1839).
時道光己亥清和。
Right: 5 columns in clerical script followed by 1 column in cursive script, undated:
Returning Sails off Distant Shores
[The eight ci-poems composed by Zhong Shixian 鍾世賢 (active Jiajing period, 1522–1566, of the Ming dynasty) in the tune of Langtaosha 浪淘沙titled “Hunan bajing ge 湖南八景歌” (Songs on the Eight Views of Hunan) are transcribed on this and the other seven leaves with variations on several characters. Only the titles of the songs are translated.]
Shiwu Xianren (unidentified) wrote and painted this.
Fen 汾 (Leaf C) Letian zhiming 樂天知命 (Leaf D, E, F, G, H, I, J) Sanle Tang 三樂堂 (Leaf C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J) Dang yuan xu huang 當苑緒晃 (Leaf C, J) Xuhui 旭暉 (Leaf C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J) Ji 冀 (Leaf D, E, F, G, H, I) Illegible: 2 (Leaf C, G)
Colophons
Zhang Zude 張祖德 (19th‒20th c.)
1. Leaf A and B (34 columns in standard script, undatable; 2 seals):
[The eight ci-poems are not translated.]
The above are “Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers” written in my lodging in Linfen of the Fen County [in Shanxi Province] after the Duanyang Festival [on the fifth of the fifth month] of the gengzi year. [Signed] Zhang Chengjiu [Zhang Zude] from Dingqiang [Seals]: Jingcai, Zude (double seals)
2. Leaf K (14 columns in semi-cursive script, undatable; 3 seals):
[Excerpt of Lu Ji’s 陸機 (261‒303) preface to his “Wen fu” (Essay on literature) is not translated.]
To the right is an excerpt of Lu Shiheng’s [Lu Ji] writing recorded three days before the summer solstice in the fifth month of the gengzi year for the advice of the revered elder, Mr. Wang Qianyi. [Signed] Zhang Zude from Dingqiang [in Gansu Province].
[1] Eight ci-poems by Zhong Shixian 鍾世賢 (active Jiajing period, 1522–1566, of the Ming dynasty) in the tune of Langtaosha 浪淘沙titled “Hunan bajing ge湖南八景歌” (Songs on the Eight Views of Hunan).
[ The Cadmus Bookshop, Inc. , New York, until 1955; sold to MMA]
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