Painted Panel of Character "Dragon"
early 1900s
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; unmounted
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 236.5 x 80.3 cm (93 1/8 x 31 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in memory of Alan Priest
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This set of four colorful hanging scrolls may have been used in an outdoor Buddhist ritual to evoke heavenly blessings. Each hanging scroll bears four different characters: tiger, dragon, whistle, and recite. Traditionally, tiger and dragon belong to the four directional guards, respectively west and east.
