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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the third of 23 volumes, probably from a reprint of the 1812-1817 Japanese edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the method for painting rounded peaks in the level distance. The image on the right here is the one that concludes Xu Bing’s The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll [LI2007.77]. It is an example of how to paint distant mountains, and is used by Xu Bing to depict countryside. This gives a feeling of the scroll composition moving back to countryside after passing through a more urban environment.

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (possible place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (possible place of publication)
    Date
    1812 - 1817
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Material and technique
    print; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26.5 x 17.6 x 0.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26.5 x 30 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.
    LI2009.12

  • 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. 90 on p. 174, p. 151, illus. p. 174 fig. 90

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