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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Paintingfront

© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the first of three volumes remaining from a Qing dynasty (1645-1911) five volume edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the method for painting a waterfall and winding stream in a valley. The meandering waterfall on the left side of this opening is included among the mountains that create a far bank in Xu Bing’s The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll [LI2007.77].

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (probable place of creation)
    Date
    Qing Dynasty (1645 - 1911)
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Material and technique
    print; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26.5 x 16.1 x 0.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26.2 x 27.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed,
    bound
    Object type index
    communications equipment › book,
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.10

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 88 on p. 171, p. 151, illus. p. 171 fig. 88

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