Photograph

Unknown artist

Paper

Penn Museum

A traditional Chinese ink wash painting depicts a mountainous landscape with sparse trees in the foreground and a waterfall cascading down a rocky cliff. Calligraphy is present in the upper section of the artwork. A mounted photograph showing the hanging scroll "Viewing Plum Flowers in Snow" (雪中見楳図) by Nukina Kaioku (貫名 海屋; 1778–1863) painted in 1841 CE. The original is in the Honolulu Museum of Art. Above the scroll is a with page with Japanese handwriting which is likely a colophon associated withe painting, possibly by the artist or collector. The photograph is mounted on a white rectangular sheet of paper and has some faded pink spots, likely from water damage. 29-96-729 Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904