Unidentified panel from one of the Wu Family Shrines (Wu Liang Tzu)

Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE

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147-168

Rubbing wax on paper

Impression: 12 1/8 × 45 1/4 in. (30.8 × 114.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Partial gift of Mrs. George Pettengill Jr., in memory of her sons, George Tilford Pettengill, III (1909-1944), Class of 1932 and William Van Horne Pettengill (1914-1952), Class of 1937 and partial purchase through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

MIS.967.48.15

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Period

1-500

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Course History

HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019

Provenance

Collected by Leila Price Pettengill (1887-1977), Washington, D.C., in China, before 1930; given to present collection, 1967.

Catalogue Raisonne

Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine, Stanford University Press, 1989, fig. 9, South Wall (Rear 6 - 135).

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