Hu Zhengyan
Treatise on the Paintings and Writings of the Ten Bamboo Studio
1899-1919
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Hu Zhengyan
Treatise on the Paintings and Writings of the Ten Bamboo Studio
1899-1919
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with color woodcut illustrations and text, Book: 253 × 153 × 5 mm. (9 15/16 × 6 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John S. Pearson, Baltimore
Object Number
2002.730.1
7 volumes bound by a blue cover (2002.730.1-.7). Bone latches missing. The cover is delicate and breaking apart at the seams. The popularity of the multi-volume manual led to many printings made from recut blocks.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; John S. Pearson, Baltimore
Thomas Ebrey, "The Editions, Superstates, and States of the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting", "The East Asian Library Journal 14, no. 1 (2010), pp. 1-119. [http://gest.princeton.edu/EALJ/ebrey_thomas.ealj.v14.n01.p001.pdf]
