Sea of Ink

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Authors: Richard Weihe
Tags: Biographical, Fiction, Historical, German, china
spiders
     
    Page from an album with three leaves, dated 1691.
    Ink on paper, 34.5 x 27.1 cm. Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai Collection. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Fred Fangyu Wang bequest.
Bird, fish, rock
     
    Hanging scroll, dated 1694.
    Ink on paper, 127.5 x 36.5 cm. Charles A. Drenowatz Collection, Museum Rietberg, Zürich. Photograph © Wettstein & Kauf.
Landscape with rider
     
    Page from an album with twelve leaves, dated 21 December 1699.
    Ink and light colour on paper, 21.3 x 16.8 cm. Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr, 1988, © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, all rights reserved.
Fish
     
    Page from an album with twenty-two leaves, in places dated 1694 and 1702 (The Anwan Album).
    Ink on paper. Sumitomo Collection, Sen-oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto, Japan.
Catfish
     
    Page from an album with nine leaves, dated Spring 1691.
    Ink on paper. Private collection, China. Photograph: all rights reserved.

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