tuo yi jin
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
tuo yi jin is a 1780 paint by Unknown, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a few plants with long, thin leaves and small red flowers. There's a big rock on the left side, and some smaller plants around the bottom. The background is a solid light color. The plants and rock are painted in a lot of detail, with lines and shading that make them look real. The flowers are a deep red color, and the leaves are different shades of green. If you like this kind of art, you might want to check out the Romanticism movement.
A rectangular watercolour painting from around 1780 features muted tones and depicts two short plants rising from the ground, each with rounded leaves and five-petalled pink flowers that may represent *tuo yi jin*. The work was acquired from E. Parsons and entered the collection in 1889, as recorded in the Asia Department registers during a 2022 provenance research project.
Read the full account in the museum source.
