A Quatrain about Peonies
1736–1795
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Print only: 109.6 x 52.3 cm (43 1/8 x 20 9/16 in.); Overall: 198 x 64.6 cm (77 15/16 x 25 7/16 in.); with knobs: 198 x 71 cm (77 15/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign (1736–95)
About
Woodblock printing in color reached its height in China in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. It was executed by means of sets of separate blocks, each carved to print a different color.