Caption

Divine Boy Driving Fish, unknown artist, nianhua New Year's picture, early 20th century, Yangzhou; Chinese; graphic print; height 20.0 cm, width 18.4 cm; motifs: divine boy, fish., A monochrome line drawing on beige paper showing a person with dark hair styled in two buns, wearing a robe tied at the waist, standing in shallow water and holding a long pole in one hand and raising a small object in the other. There are a few fish of different shapes and patterns around the person in the water, some with spotted or striped markings. A group of rounded cloud-like shapes frames the top corners of the scene. Short curved lines suggest ripples in the water and tufts of grass appear on the distant shoreline. The image contains black ink lines on a tan background with small touches of red in one corner.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A20_129

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40.9Mb (2.5Mb) / 11.5in x 13.8in / 3441 x 4154 (300dpi)

Keywords

Divine Boy Driving Fish unknown artist nianhua New Year's picture early 20th century Yangzhou Chinese graphic print height 20.0 cm width 18.4 cm motifs divine boy fish monochrome line drawing beige paper showing person dark hair styled two buns wearing robe tied waist standing shallow water holding long pole hand raising small object different shapes patterns water spotted striped markings group rounded cloud- shapes frames top corners scene Short curved lines suggest ripples tufts grass distant shoreline image contains black ink lines tan background small touches red corner.