Excerpt from Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
2021
Artists
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.
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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