Pointers for Depicting [Bamboo] Culm 寫竿訣

Compilercompiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言 (Chinese, ca. 1584 - 1674)

Additional Title(s)

Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu) 十竹齋書畫譜; volume 1 (Heaven)

ClassificationsPRINTS

Date1633

DynastyMing dynasty

Mediumwoodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensionsbook: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.6 cm.)

DescriptionOne page from a woodblock printed book mounted as an album leaf

InscribedInscription from right to left: 上下短 / 中間長 / 莭休並 / 莫彎竿 / 濃為隂 / 淡為陽玉箸従下冩上; 寫節訣上覆下 / 下𠄘上 / 若月曲 / 如鈎樣 / 斷復連 / 可相倣従上冩下; Hand-written inscription, lower right: Bamboo 21 (zhu ershiyi) 竹二十一

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from June and Simon K.C Li, Fong Liu, Mei-Lee Ney, and Anne and Jim Rothenberg, in honor of Steven S. Koblik

Status

Not on view

Object number2014.7.1.89