Lotuses, Insects, and Birds
Unknown Artist
1800s
Medium
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
174.5 × 77.5 cm · image: 112.6 × 57.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
1985.18
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Pairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Given its subject matter, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer.