H x W (image, avg): 30.5 x 18.5 cm (12 x 7 5/16 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 5, Joseph Chang, May 19, 1998, in the object record).