H x W (image, each): 163.9 x 38.4 cm (64 1/2 x 15 1/8 in)
Type:
Calligraphy
Origin:
China
Date:
late 19th century
Period:
Qing dynasty
Provenance:
To 1998
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (born 1929), New York City, to 1998
From 1998
Freer Gallery of Art, given by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in 1998 [1]
Notes:
[1] All Chinese calligraphy in the gift were published in Mr. Ellsworth's Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950, vol. 3 (New York: Random House, 1986) (according to Curatorial Note 2, Joseph Chang, May 19, 1998, in the object record).