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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
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
Liu Yu — 清 柳堉 幽谷深林圖 卷|Remote Valleys and Deep Forests
Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697) — Landscapes in Various Styles
Landscape with Streams and Mountains
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698) — Landscape Album in Variou
Wang Jian
Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642–1715) — Landscape after Ni Zan
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698) — Landscape Album in Variou
Wang Yuanqi — 清 王原祁 輞川圖 卷|Wangchuan Villa
Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776) — West Lake
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698) — Landscape Album in Variou
Gu Chao (Chinese, active late 1700s) — Pine-shaded Monastery
