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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