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A Cabbage Plant

The illustrious Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770) lived during a period of great turmoil. Bitter after his once promising government career was stalled, he wrote the poem "Planting Stem Lettuce," using the lettuce as an allegory for wasted and uncultivated talent. Painted images of cabbage, may allude, then, to Du's poem and bear subtle political critiques of corrupt government. However, this quic

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A Chinese man standing in a high wind

[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono List, S.I. 48, pg. 77, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. For information regarding purchase location, see Accession List.

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A Christian subject: The Madonna and Child

[1] See List of Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, pg. 105, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also, the presence of a stamp of "Exposition d'Art Musulman, Palais des Champs Elysees, 1893" has been observed on the reverse of the folio (see Curatorial Remark 10, Debra Diamond, February 3, 2011, in the object record).

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A Cloth Merchant

[1] See Original Album List, pg. 1, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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A Cock and Bamboos

[1] See Original Panel List, L. 119, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) was a collector and dealer born in Shanghai, China. After he left Shanghai in 1910, he lived, at various points in time, in London, Montreal, and Ridgefield, Connecticut. He established a gallery in New York City in 1920.

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A Courtesan and attendant

well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 an

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A Courtesan and her attendant

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A Courtesan under a cherry tree

[1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 279, pg. 64, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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A Courtier

[1] See Original Album List, pg. 1, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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A Dancer, Kiyohime, a cherry tree and the bell of Dojo-ji

[1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 339, pg. 83, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

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A Darbar of Jahangir

Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) was an officer in the British military and a collector of Indian paintings. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, Hanna’s family later moved to London, where he was baptized in 1851. Beginning in 1857, Hanna served as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1889. After his retirement, he resided in London and Pet

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A Dragon and clouds

Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

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