Nine Letters to Home
Wen Zhengming
(Chinese, 1470–1559)
after 1523
Object PlaceChina
Medium/Techniqueink on paper
DimensionsHeight x length (9 letters): 24.6 × 496.8 cm (9 11/16 × 195 9/16 in.)
Height x length (scroll overall): 24.6 × 1662 cm (9 11/16 × 654 5/16 in.)
Height x length (scroll overall): 24.6 × 1662 cm (9 11/16 × 654 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2860
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCalligraphy
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)
