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Passing on the Sutras at the Stone Chamber (A Portrait of Weng Xianfeng), vol.1

(Chinese, active in mid-19th century)
1644–1912
Medium/Techniqueink and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 38.4 × 169.8 cm (15 1/8 × 66 7/8 in.)
Overall: 39.5 × 2519.5 cm (15 9/16 × 991 15/16 in.)
Length (Head Section): 58.3 cm (22 15/16 in.)
Height x length (Frontispiece): 31.7 × 166.5 cm (12 1/2 × 65 9/16 in.)
Height x length (Colophon1): 30.9 × 97.8 cm (12 3/16 × 38 1/2 in.)
Height x length (Colophon2): 38.4 × 324 cm (15 1/8 × 127 9/16 in.)
Height x length (Colophon3): 34.3 × 122.4 cm (13 1/2 × 48 3/16 in.)
Height x length (Colophon4): 35.3 × 264.8 cm (13 7/8 × 104 1/4 in.)
Length (End Paper): 1193.3 cm (469 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2019.2010.1
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ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 – d. 1904), 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; 2019, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)