Calligraphy in Running Style based on Wang Bo's Essay on Tengwang Pavilion
Tiebao (Chinese, 1752–1824)
1811
- Medium
- handscroll, ink on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- Image: 43.4 x 647.9 cm (17 1/16 x 255 1/16 in.); Overall: 44.4 x 863.6 cm (17 1/2 x 340 in.)
- Culture
- China, Changbai, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A member of the Donggo clan, Tiebao belonged to the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner army. As an official in the Qing court, he endured considerable vicissitude and his career was never smooth. Celebrated as a man of letters, he oversaw the publications of the Manchu military system as well as an anthology of poems by members of the imperial family and other Manchu dignitaries. In calligraphy, he was regarded as the equal of such eighteenth-century luminaries as Liu Yong (1720-1805) and Weng Fanggang (1733-1818). This handscroll is a work of his mature years and is exemplary of his disciplined and highly subtle approach to the art of calligraphy.
