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Excerpt from Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"

Excerpt from Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"

CalligraphyAmerican21st century

Excerpt from Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"

2021

Artists

Michael Cherney (also known as Qiu Mai 秋麥)Artist

Description

A thin sheet of light brownish paper with twelve vertical columns of unpunctuated cursive Chinese script in black ink. The leftmost column begins on the bottom third of the page and is written in smaller characters, below which is a red intaglio seal.

Classification

Calligraphy

Medium

Chinese ink on paper

Culture

American

Century

21st century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

H. 40 × W. 27.3 cm (15 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Michael Cherney, Beijing (2021), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

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