Rats and a Lamp
Beneath an oil lamp, three rats scurry over a blue, cloth-bound book.
The artist’s inscription reads:
Rats would wish all people to be rich;
The thought behind the wish is not selfless.
In the dinghai year [1947], painted by the eighty-seven year old Baishi.
--Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu
The artist’s inscription reads:
Rats would wish all people to be rich;
The thought behind the wish is not selfless.
In the dinghai year [1947], painted by the eighty-seven year old Baishi.
--Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu
Artwork Details
- 清/現代 齊白石 燈下戲鼠圖 軸
- Title: Rats and a Lamp
- Artist: Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864–1957)
- Date: 1947
- Culture: China
- Medium: Framed hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 41 × 13 1/4 in. (104.2 × 33.7 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, 2014
- Object Number: 2019.290.6
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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