Lotuses, Insects, and Birds
1800s
Maker Unknown
Korean Art
Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; image: 112.6 x 57.5 cm (44 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.); overall: 174.5 x 77.5 cm (68 11/16 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1985.18 Given its subject matter of lotus flowers, herons, kingfisher, and dragonflies, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 112.6 x 57.5 cm (44 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.); Overall: 174.5 x 77.5 cm (68 11/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Korean Art
- Accession Number
- 1985.18
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1984, Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art, The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art, Gold Needles: Embroidery Arts from Korea, <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 12, 2015).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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