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Trace the channels from the small boat at the lower left past the village among the willows, then across the green fields to the hills.
About 1588 Song Xu painted eighteen views of famous places in and around Wuxing, today’s Huzhou, and wrote a note on each like an entry in a local gazetteer. Not a native of Wuxing, he must have visited it after accepting the commission. His note at the upper right tells the reader that Lake Tai is only a few li, or Chinese miles, to the east, and that past Xiangshan, a few li north, one crosses into Yixing.
Album leaf; ink and color on silk · Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Ming
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- Museum title
- Baoyang Lake
- Artist
- Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)
- Date
- c. 1588
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.