Chanting on Donkey-back
The poem Lin inscribed on this fan reads:
As one travels year after year, youth is spent.
One is homesick with each backward glance at the setting sun.
Sometimes at leisure, one can chant a poem.
Why not take a ride when the willow blooms?
[Trans. from Ellsworth et al, Later Chinese Painting]
As one travels year after year, youth is spent.
One is homesick with each backward glance at the setting sun.
Sometimes at leisure, one can chant a poem.
Why not take a ride when the willow blooms?
[Trans. from Ellsworth et al, Later Chinese Painting]
Artwork Details
- 清/現代 林紓 驢背行吟圖 摺扇
- Title: Chanting on Donkey-back
- Artist: Lin Shu (Chinese, 1852–1924)
- Date: dated 1919
- Culture: China
- Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
- Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (19.4 x 56.5 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.116
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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