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Pointers for Depicting Branches 寫枝訣

Compiler (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: 寫枝訣 分長短 / 左右接 / 安鵲爪 / 魚剌別 / 出迸跳 / 入袃叠 魚骨 釘頭 鵲爪 鼠尾 鹿角; Hand-written inscription, lower right: Bamboo 24 (zhu ershisi) 竹二十四
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 number2014.7.1.92
Pointers for Depicting [Bamboo] Culm 寫竿訣
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.89
Pointers for Depicting Leaves 寫葉訣
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.93
Pointers
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.90
Pointers
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.91
Pointers
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.94
Branches of Cherries (Yingtao)
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.2.88
Method of adding flowers to the right 右加花式
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.28
Method of emerging to the right 右出式
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.29
In the manner of Zhao Zi-ang's outlined orchids 臨趙子昻勾蘭
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.33
Manner of holding the brush 起手執筆式
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.12
General Introduction
Hu Zhengyan 胡正言
1633
Object number: 2014.7.1.10