The One Hundred Birds
Artist
School of Wu Huan
(Chinese, ca. 1770 - 1790)
Date18th century
MediumHanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
DimensionsOverall: 21 × 77 1/2 inches (53.34 × 196.85 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-228/1
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DescriptionEagle standing on a pine branch, stream in foreground, two small birds with red billsExhibition HistoryThe Art of the Forbidden City, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 1955.
American Embassy, Brussels and London. Long-term loan to Ambassador Charles Price III. January 1982-March 1989.
Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
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