Caption

Red carp, ; Chinese art, Chinese culture; fish, carps, nianhua New Year's picture, early 20th century, Mianzhu; graphic print; height 44.5 cm, width 24.0 cm., A large stylized fish dominates the image with a red body, red fins, and a red tail, showing textured black scale patterns and black outline details; the fish has large round eyes with blue and yellow rings and black pupils and white areas around the eyes. The background is a pale beige with several green, brushy pine-like foliage clusters scattered around, each accented with black radiating lines. Thin black sketchy lines suggest branches or outlines behind and around the fish. There are areas of faded or worn edges on the paper showing lighter beige and small spots of discoloration.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A20_104

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50.0Mb (2.7Mb) / 18.7in x 10.4in / 5599 x 3120 (300dpi)

Keywords

Red carp Chinese art Chinese culture fish carps nianhua New Year's picture early 20th century Mianzhu graphic print height 44.5 cm width 24.0 cm large stylized fish dominates image red body red fins red tail showing textured black scale patterns black outline details large round eyes blue yellow rings black pupils white areas eyes background pale beige several green brushy pine- foliage clusters scattered accented black radiating lines Thin black sketchy lines suggest branches outlines areas faded worn edges paper lighter beige small spots discoloration.