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On the Banks of the Yangzi River
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Description
The inscription on the original painting reads: ‘On the Banks of the Yangzi River, summer 1973, painted in Nanjing Petro-chemical Plant, Song Wenzhi’, and is followed by the artist’s seal. A second seal quotes the opening line of a well-known poem by Mao Zedong ‘This land with so much beauty aglow’.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangsu province › Nanjing (place of publication)
- Date
- 1973
- Artist/maker
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after Song Wenzhi (1919 - 1999) (artist)Song Wenzhi (1919 - 1999) (calligrapher)after Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (author)
- Associated people
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Jiangsu People's Publishing House (established 1953) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 54.3 x 76.3 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.218
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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