Landscape: Fisherman in a Cave

Artist Dong Bangda (Chinese, 1699 - 1769)

Date1769 (summer)

MediumHanging scroll: ink and light colors on paper

Dimensions50 x 18 inches (127 x 45.7 cm)

CultureChina

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGeorge and Mary Rockwell Collection

Terms

Paintings
Landscape
Hanging scroll: ink and light colors
Boats
Bodies of water
Caves
Landscapes
Mountains
Trees
Paper

Object number88.002.187

Label CopyInscribed: The blue-green pines above the river and an autumn sky remote; At the border of the City of the White Emperor an ancient tree, distant [Thus] see that the intention of the Old Man of the White Stone is this: to follow and to imitate that time. Xiqiu year, summer, the sixth month [1769] [Signed] Dong Bangda Dong Bangda was a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang province. In 1733 he attained the jinshi degree, awarded upon passing the highest level of the civil service examinations. He held high offices in the imperial court and participated in the compilation of the Shiqu Baoji {Treasured Boxes of the Stony Moat], the catalogue of painting and calligraphy in emperor Qianlong¿s collection. He gained recognition for his landscape paintings and for his calligraphy in archaic styles.

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