Lord Guan (Guan Yu)
This work is a rubbing of made from a stone stele and shows Guan Yu (160-220), armed and mounted on a horse. The rubbing comes from a Qing engraving of Guan Yu by Li Jintai, trace-copied by Dong Mu. The title, Guan Yu chang zheng tu (關羽長征圖) appears at the top of the image written in seal script.
Provenance
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Mr. and Mrs. Laurance P. and Isabel Roberts, Baltimore, Maryland; given to Walters Art Museum, 1990.
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 15 1/16 x 22 5/16 in. (38.3 x 56.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Laurance and Isabel Roberts, 1990
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
96.6