1655-1703
Plate: 41 × 18.5 cm (16 1/8 × 7 5/16 in.) Sheet: 43 × 20.5 cm (16 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856. William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
Debossed offset lithograph on white wove paper
21st centuryAmericanWoodblock print; ink and color on paper
19th centuryJapaneseWoodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
16th centuryGermanWoodblock print; ink, color and silver on paper; with silver foils on some figures' faces; a fraction at bottom is not color printed, possibly it was originally folded in; with printed inscription on the carriage reading: "Yu Huang Shang Di" ("The Jade Emperor"), on the left red banner reading: "Tiandi Sanjie Shifang Zhenzai"("True Rulers of Heaven, Earth, The Three Realms and Ten Directions"), and on the right blue banner reading: "Shang Yuan Ci Fu Tianguan" ("The Daoist Heavenly Official Who Grants Forturne"). Probably from Beijing.
20th centuryChinese