Twelve Views of Landscape

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Twelve Views of Landscape (山水十二景), also known as Twelve Views from a Thatched Hut

Xia Gui (夏珪, fl. 1180-1230), Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Handscroll, ink on silk, 27.3 x 238 cm, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

       The present handsroll of four scenes originally formed part of a longer scroll with twelve captioned scenes in total.

       These four remaining scenes are: Distant Mountains and Wild Geese, Ferry Returning to the Misty Village, Fisherman Playing the Flute in Tranquility, Anchoring on a Misty Bank at Dusk.

Xia Gui: Twelve Views of Landscape