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Calligraphy (a couplet)
1945
Medium
ink on paper
Measurements
(a) 69.5 × 30.3 cm (image)
(b) 69.5 × 30.3 cm (image)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1974
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
China
Inscription
(b) inscribed in ink (in Chinese characters) c.l.:
stamped in red ink (in Chinese characters) c.l.: (artist's seal)
stamped in red ink (in Chinese characters) c.l.: (artist's seal)
Accession Number
AS32.a-b-1974
Department
Asian Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation
Physical description
This pair of calligraphy consists of two lines of poetry which match each other in what is called a couplet. Read from the right scroll to the left: 'After rain a pair of fowls come to rest on the bamboos; In mid-autumn a butterfly descends to seek flowers.' The characters are written in the regular script of Chinese calligraphy.