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Find the boats moored along the canal and the two small figures on the bank, then look up past the temple halls to the pagoda at the upper left.
Tiger Hill rises a few miles northwest of Suzhou, Shen Zhou’s home city, and its history reaches back to the ancient state of Wu, about the 5th century BCE. His Twelve Views of Tiger Hill take the viewer on a visit, from the boat landing at the foot of the hill up to the Cloudy Cliff Monastery. Here the visit begins at the canal mooring, with the monastery’s pagoda seen far off on the hill.
Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper · Image: 31.5 x 40.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Ming
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- Museum title
- Distant View of Tiger Hill from the Canal Mooring, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
- Artist
- Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509)
- Date
- after 1490
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.5 x 40.6 cm (12 3/8 x 16 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1427–1509
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.