IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 223168 accession number: P.19-1955 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 19 June 2018 updated: Monday 20 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: An illustration from the earliest Chinese book printed in colour woodblocks invented and perfected by Hu Zhengyan (1583/4-1673/4), to reproduce the effect of watercolour painting. The book comprised eight categories: birds, plums, orchids, bamboos, fruit, stones, ink drawings (round fans) and miscellany. The leaves are printed on one side only; they were folded in half and glued together along the outer fold, and each image was followed by an accompanying text, in most cases a poem. This example has been taken out of its original binding. This image does not appear in the Universtiy Library's copy (the finest and only extant complete copy in the original binding of what he describes as the 'second superstate' of the first edition). There is a 'bird on plum branch, but it is from different blocks. Most probably a later addition, considering the wear and missing blocks in the other of the pages at the Fitzwilliam. Artist Liu; Seal: Wên chun. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's 3 March 1955, part of lot 28 (probably from the collection of Prince Vladimir Galitzine) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/223168 TECHNIQUES ---------- colour printing TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1633 - 1633 creation date earliest: 1633 creation date latest: 1633 culture: 17th Century#