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Prints
Methods of painting grasses and ground covers
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- Date
- 1633
- Accession number
- 2014.7.1.48
- Compiler
- compiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言(Opens in new tab) (Chinese, 1579–1674)
- Dimensions
- book: 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. Examples of ways to paint grass with descriptions: 地下點掇(綴?): ground decorative dots; 根下艸: grass below roots; 草: grass;鵲爪草: magpie-claw grass;蘭根包葉:orchid roots including leaves; 鷹爪艸: hawk-claw grass; 苔, 聚五,三筆, 五筆, 攅 (攢?)三: moss, group of five, three strokes, five strokes, group of three.
