Woman Tidies up her Headdress

This rubbing of a woman is probably obtained from a larger brick carving that decorated a building or a tomb. The rubbing artist creates a distinctive style by singling out the impression of a lone woman who casually fixes her hairstyle. Fang Ruo, a rubbing maker, painter, writer, and seal carver, identified himself as the artist with a square seal on the lower left of the woman’s image. In doing so, he broke the old tradition of rubbing artists who did not leave signatures in their works.