Orchids and Rocks
late 19th-early 20th century
Kim Ŭng-wŏn (also spelled Gim Eung'won; also known as So-ho and Ch'ŏn-ram)
1855 - 1921
Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Eight-panel folding screen; ink on sky-blue tinted paper; each of the eight paintings with artist's inscription followed by a signature reading "Soho" (Chinese, "Xiaohu"); the first (i.e., far right) painting also with a signature of the artist reading "Kim Ŭng-wŏn"; each inscription preceded by an elongated elliptical red seal and each signature followed by two red seals, all the seals now virtually obliterated through abrasion
- Medium
- Eight-panel folding screen, ink on sky-blue tinted paper, each of the eight paintings with artist's inscription followed by a signature reading "Soho" (Chinese, "Xiaohu"), the first (i.e, far right) painting also with a signature of the artist reading "Kim Ŭng-wŏn", each inscription preceded by an elongated elliptical red seal, each signature followed by two red seals, all the seals now virtually obliterated through abrasion
- Locations
- region: Korea
- Period
- Chosŏn Dynasty
- Dimensions
- each painting proper: 120.8 × 34.2 cm (47 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.) full screen, open flat: 170.2 × 379 cm (67 × 149 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
- Rights Statement
- unknown
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