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Fish and Shrimps

(Chinese)
1793 or 1853
Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper
DimensionsHeight x length (handscroll overall): 33.5 × 672.3 cm (13 3/16 × 264 11/16 in.)
Height x width (painting only): 33.5 × 549.5 cm (13 3/16 × 216 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2843
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and Changshu, China; 1904, by inheritance from Weng Tonghe to his great-grandson, Weng Zhilian (d. 1919), Changshu and Tianjin; 1919, by inheritance from Weng Zhilian to his son, Wan-go H.C. Weng, Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)
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