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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 second of four volumes from a 1921 edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular opening illustrates the method for painting rocks and how to depict the level views of fields. The fields on the right show a method of planting that also appears in the 17th-century painting that Xu Bing copies in the opening panels of The Suzhou Landscript [LI2007.73-76].

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    Associated place
    China (probable place of publication)
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1921
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Material and technique
    photolithograph; inscription in red ink; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26 x 15.2 x 1 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26 x 27.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    photolithograph,
    brush drawing,
    bound
    Object type index
    book,
    print,
    calligraphy
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.4

  • 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. 82 on p. 165, p. 151, illus. p. 165 fig. 82

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