Poem in Cursive Script
ca. 1622–25
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
Image: 64 7/8 x 19 5/8 in. (164.8 x 49.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 98 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. (250.2 x 65.1 cm) Overall with knobs: 98 1/2 x 29 5/8 in. (250.2 x 75.2 cm)
Classification
Calligraphy
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1979
Accession Number
1979.500.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Dong Qichang · 1555–1636
Dong Qichang (1555–1636), born in Huating in present-day Shanghai's Songjiang region, emerged from a scholarly yet impoverished family as the son of a local school teacher. A precocious child, he passed the prefectural civil service examination at age twelve, securing entry to a government school, and later sat for the imperial exams, placing second at seventeen to his cousin due to inferior calli...