In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
By the 1500s, visits to historic and scenic sites in the lower Yangzi delta stimulated an increase of printed illustrated travel books. Topographical depictions of local scenery flourished. Leaves from this album illustrates sites around Lake Tai of the two adjacent counties Changxing and Wuxing (modern Huzhou). Song Xu, who lived intermittently in Jiaxing and Songjiang, must have passed through Wuxing by boat and thus knew the region. The paintings are inscribed with gazetteerlike notations, suggesting that the album was produced for clients as commemorative works, a travel guide, or for “armchair travel” ( woyou ) in one’s mind.
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Kuncan (Chinese, 1612–c. 1673) — Spring Landscape
Wang Gai (Chinese, active c. 1677–1705) — Album of Landscape
Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776) — West Lake
Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642–1715) — Landscape after Ni Zan
Wang Jian
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698) — Landscape Album in Variou
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698) — Landscape Album in Variou
Gu Chao (Chinese, active late 1700s) — Pine-shaded Monastery
Wang Yuanqi — 清 王原祁 輞川圖 卷|Wangchuan Villa
Zhai Dakun (Chinese, d. 1804) — Landscape
Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697) — Landscapes in Various Styles
Liu Yu — 清 柳堉 幽谷深林圖 卷|Remote Valleys and Deep Forests
