id: 148234 accession number: 1975.22.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.1 updated: 2023-09-16 11:08:54.089000 Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 1, early 1650s. Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694). Album cover; image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.22.1 title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 1 title in original language: 山水花鳥圖冊 series: series in original language: creation date: early 1650s creation date earliest: 1635 creation date latest: 1655 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: album cover department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694) - artist --- measurements: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist seal: Fan Qi 樊圻. Poem by Wang Wu 王武 (1632–1690): A narrow path coiling, winds across rock foundations;/ Old vines and ancient trees meet the sunset's slanting rays./ Unaware that my small boat has gone so far,/ By the time it reverses its oars, the green mountains will be half-covered with clouds. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1975 opening date: 1976-02-03T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). * Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-April 7, 2004). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015). --- PROVENANCE Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924] date: footnotes: citations: (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Leaf 1 may be inspired by Li Bai's poetic line: A small boat has sailed through ten thousand layers of hills. Wang Wu's colophon reads: "A narrow path coiling, winds across rock foundations; Old vines and ancient trees meet the sunset's slanting rays. Unaware that my small boat has gone so far, By the time it reverses its oars, the green mountains will be half-covered with clouds." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 63, no. 2, 1976, pp. 31–71. page number: Reproduced: p. 70, cat. no. 155 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624 Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 219, pp. 288-293 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 379-385 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.1/1975.22.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.1/1975.22.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.1/1975.22.1_full.tif