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Your galleryThe Sword Spring, Tiger Hill, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
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See how small the three figures are against the cliff walls, then find the pavilion under the tree at the right and the building at the top left.
Climbing Tiger Hill, the visit passes the Sword Spring, where the path runs between sheer walls of rock. Three small figures stand in the ravine, a pavilion sits under the trees at the right, and a railed building looks down from the top of the cliff. Before the album came to Cleveland in 1964, it passed through several Chinese collections, among them that of Binliang (1784 to 1847).
Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper · Image: 31.2 x 40.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Ming
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- Museum title
- The Sword Spring, Tiger Hill, 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: 31.2 x 40.6 cm (12 5/16 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.