Album of Precious Works from Famous Early Modern Calligraphers and Painters (Volume 1)
Unknown Artist
late 1700s to mid-1800s
Medium
One of a pair of folding-albums; ink and color on silk and paper
Dimensions
31 × 21 cm
Classification
Portfolio
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom
Accession Number
1972.117.1
About this artwork
This is the first of two albums boxed together with an external title reading Famous Early Modern Calligraphers and Painters. It begins with a lengthy inscription in Chinese by the Japanese artist Rai Sanyō (1780–1832) dated to 1817, and concludes with another, undated, by Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835). In between, there are undated poems in Chinese by other Japanese artists, Nukina Kaioku (1778–1863), Rai Shunpū (1753–1825), Rai Kyōhei (1756–1834), and Kan Sazan (1748–1827), as well as painting...