Two Old Men with Magic Lamp
Unknown Chinese, Chinese
about 1690
Ink and wash on silk mounted on cardboard
Image: 14 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (36.8 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ronald Shaffer in memory of Charlotte Shaffer
W.979.81
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label: Gift of Ronald Shaffer in memory of Charlotte Shaffer
Course History
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025
Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025
Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025
Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025
Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025
Exhibition History
Asian Art from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22-March 21, 1982.
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in Global Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 26-October 4, 2025.
Provenance
Ronald Shaffer, East Thetford, Vermont; given to present collection, 1979.
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