XI GANG (1746-1803)

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XI GANG (1746-1803)

Southern Water Village

Handscroll, ink on paper, 8 x 55in. (20.3 x 139.6cm.)

Inscribed with a poem and signed: "Third brother Zhongsui asked me to paint this Southern Water Village. I also attached a poem to it. On the tenth day of the eleventh month of wuwu year (1798), by Tiesheng Gang under a lamp."

Three seals of the artist: Meng Quan Wai Shi, Xi Gang, Tie Sheng Shi Hua

Twenty-one colophons by scholars of the period, including Zhang Miao (19th century), Wu Xiqi (1746-1818), Guo Ling (1767-1831) and Ling Shan (19th century)

Frontispiece by Wang Duanguang (active 1771)