Artwork Details
47-1/2 x 15-3/4 in. (image) 87-3/4 x 21-13/16 in. (overall)
Periodsigned: Zhiyin Wu Bin seals: Wu Bin zi yue Wenzhung; Yizhi qi
Accession NumberPurchased to complement the Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese art through the bequest of Mrs. Enid Goodrich and the support of Lilly Endowment Inc.
CopyrightAsian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
Color PaletteJames Cahill, Berkeley, CA. (James Freeman, 1985); Henry Harrison; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2004
"'From a thousand cliffs, cascades scatter and fall. In myriad ravines, the trees twine and twist.' [Inscribed] on the lantern festival day in the dingsi year of the Wanli era [Feb. 20, 1617] for the literary master Hengchang's learned improvements by the single-branch recluse, Wu Bin." [tr. J. Cahill]
The couplet is from a poem titled "Farewell to a Friend in Search of the Landscape of Yue" by the great poet of the Tang dynasty, Li Bai (701-762).
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