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Prints
Rules of painting leaves 画葉起手法
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- Date
- 1633
- Accession number
- 2014.7.1.13
- Compiler
- compiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言(Opens in new tab) (Chinese, 1579–1674)
- Dimensions
- page: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.6 cm.)
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink on paper
- Description
- One page from a woodblock printed book mounted as an album leaf. Illustration of five ways to paint orchid leaves with blossoms and bud with pointers. 画葉起手法: beginning rule of painting leaves; 左出式: left emerging style; 壳皮: shell skin?; 二鳳眼: second, phoenix eye; 四象眼: fourth, elephant eye; 五護根:fifth, protect the root; 學者先將此五筆習熟然後交搭左右皆同: the student first practises these five brush-strokes, then in a similar way, cris-crossingly adds on to the left and right.
