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    "localId": "20893",
    "label": "Mountain Trees after Rain",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.165"
}

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    "id": "20893",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.165",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mountain Trees after Rain",
    "description": "Wang Xuehao [Wang Hsüeh-hao], famous in the early decades of the 19th century, painted this landscape in the manner of the orthodox master Wang Hui (1632-1717) and dedicated it to his aunt. According to Wang Xuehao, Wang Hui said that the secret of cultivated painting was \"writing.\" One must paint as one writes; \"if it is simply to trace lines, it is a craft.\" Wang Xuehao  took this to heart as he created this abbreviated yet powerfully expressive mountain scene.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Christie's, New York, May 1991, no. 118; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by purchase.",
    "date": "1786 (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.165",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 83,
            "height": 47.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 32 11/16 x W: 18 11/16 in. (83 x 47.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Seal] Hsu Hao; [Seal] Meng Yang; [Seal] Chiao-i (Dedicated to his aunt); [Date] Spring of Ping-wu year (1786)",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink on paper",
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        "16121"
    ],
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    ],
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}

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