Seven Jeweled Mountain
Unknown Artist
late 1800s
Medium
ten-panel screen; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
178.4 × 439.8 cm · painting only: 154.7 × 433.4 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Korean Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Accession Number
1989.6
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
With a bird’s-eye view, this ten-panel folding screen portrays the famous Seven Jeweled Mountain 칠보산 in North Korea. Ancient volcanic eruptions shaped the mountain’s unique and awe-inspiring terrain such as phallic-shaped pillars (panel #5, from the right); a large flat-topped, steep-sided cliff (panels #7 and #8), and a rugged mountain composed of metamorphic and igneous rocks (panels #9 and #10). The tradition of landscape painting that details actual natural sites and captures their topograph...