# “Bamboo” section, from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

- By: Wang Gai (Chinese, 1645–1710)
- Date: 1817 (Jiaqing 2nd edition)
- Medium: Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper
- Classification: Illustrated Books
- Dimensions: After conservation: 11 3/16 × 6 7/8 × 1/2 in. (28.4 × 17.5 × 1.3 cm)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Gift of Anita V. Beenk, 2016
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/744431)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/as/web-large/DP-13248-001.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)