Calligraphy (reverse)
late 1800s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Calligraphy (reverse), late 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk; image: 117.7 x 33.5 cm (46 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.); panel: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.286.b A calligrapher has brushed several Chinese poems about the four seasons on the reverse side, among them "Composing in the Daytime of Summer" by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan (773–819) and "Composing when Spring Begins" by Song scholar Zhang Shi (1133–1180).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Ten-panel folding screen affixed with album leaves (obverse), calligraphy (reverse), ink and color on silk
- Medium
- ten-panel, folding, screen, affixed, album, leaves, obverse, calligraphy, reverse, ink, color, silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 117.7 x 33.5 cm (46 5/16 x 13 3/16 in.); Panel: 164.5 x 43.6 cm (64 3/4 x 17 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1998.286.b
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gordon K. Mott
- Exhibitions
- The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art, Old and New in Korean Art (Korean art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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