A King Inspecting His Domain
Asian Art
MEDIUM
Ten-panel folding screen: ink and color on paper
DATES
late 18th – early 19th century
DYNASTY
Joseon dynasty
DIMENSIONS
image: 47 5/8 × 163 3/8 in. (121 × 415 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
L2022.2.5
CREDIT LINE
Lent by the Carroll Family Collection
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Continuous composition stretching across ten panels, depicting a distant birds-eye view of a royal procession travelling across a hilly landscape. The image is depicted primarily in ink with highlights of color.
Large groups of military and other officials on horseback and on foot, many carrying banners, traveling from right to left across composition, arriving at town in left panels. The landscape is depicted as largely open, with occasional wild animals and small trees, a river at the foreground and taller mountains in the distance.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
A King Inspecting His Domain, late 18th – early 19th century. Ten-panel folding screen: ink and color on paper, image: 47 5/8 × 163 3/8 in. (121 × 415 cm). Lent by the Carroll Family Collection, L2022.2.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Image courtesy of Joseph Carroll, L2022.2.5.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, L2022.2.5.jpg. Image courtesy of Joseph Carroll, 2022
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