Calligraphy
Dong Qichang
1555–1636
Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
Dimensions
Upper width: 20 1/2" Lower width: 9 1/4" Rib length: 6-11/16"
Classification
album leaf
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43192
About the Artist
Dong Qichang · 1555–1636
Dong Qichang (1555–1636), born in Huating in present-day Shanghai's Songjiang region, emerged from a scholarly yet impoverished family as the son of a local school teacher. A precocious child, he passed the prefectural civil service examination at age twelve, securing entry to a government school, and later sat for the imperial exams, placing second at seventeen to his cousin due to inferior calli...