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Yuan Jiang

18th century (?) · Handscroll; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

Yuan Jiang was assisted in his work by a number of other artists, including his nephew Yuan Yao, who continued to practice the family style into the late eighteenth century. This handscroll, which is a close copy of Yuan Jiang's original composition, now in the Tianjin Municipal History Museum, records in detail the appearance of the Zhanyuan, or "Gazing Garden," of Nanjing, which was part of the estate of a Manchu official; thus, it preserves a valuable record of an otherwise lost garden of the early eighteenth century.

Artist

Yuan Jiang

Date

18th century (?)

Medium

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

From the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Family Collection, Gift of Constance Tang Fong, in honor of her mother, Mrs. P. Y. Tang, 1982