Bird on Flowering Branch

Unidentified maker, Chinese, 1644 - 1911
Unknown Chinese, Chinese

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Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912

Album leaf; colored inks and wash on silk

Overall: 9 7/8 × 10 3/8 in. (25.1 × 26.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936

P.958.344.5

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

Art History 34.02, Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages 62.03, Chinese Painting, Ziliang (Alex) Liu, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Chinese Art from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-September 4, 1978.

Churchill P. Lathrop at Dartmouth 1928-1978, Strauss and Barrows Galleries and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-November 26, 1978.

Provenance

Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1958.

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