Huanglong Cave (Yellow Dragon Cave)
1588
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1588
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Huanglong Cave (Yellow Dragon Cave) is a 1588 unspecified by Song Xu, a Ming Painting work, depicting Jiaxing, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a misty cave near Lake Tai with jagged rocks and a pool of water. Small boats float on the lake, and the trees look soft and blurry in the distance. Song Xu painted this as part of an album of local scenery. The album helped people learn about places they might never visit. For more like this, look up Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606).
By the 1500s, visits to historic and scenic sites in the lower Yangzi delta stimulated an increase of printed illustrated travel books. Topographical depictions of local scenery flourished. Leaves from this album illustrates sites around Lake Tai of the two adjacent counties Changxing and Wuxing (modern Huzhou). Song Xu, who lived intermittently in Jiaxing and Songjiang, must have passed through Wuxing by boat and thus knew the region. The paintings are inscribed with gazetteerlike notations, suggesting that the album was produced for clients as commemorative works, a travel guide, or for…
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