Lot Essay
Dong Qichang's many landscapes painted on album leaves or fans vary widely in the amount of detail used. While some consist of richly detailed scenes rendered with a variety of different texture strokes, others were limited to a few natural elements quickly painted. The compositions and painting styles of the album offered fall in between these two parameters. Similarly detailed and textured depictions of full, although narrowly focused landscapes also characterizes an album of ten oval fans of calligraphy and landscape paintings in the Xubaizhai Collection (Ho, Wai-kam (ed.), The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang 1555-1636, Kansas City, 1992, vol. 1, pl. 13).