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Nine-Dragon Falls

구룡포 [九龍布]

late 1800s

Han Unpyeong

(Korean)
Culture
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
Medium
ink and color on paper
Measurements
Overall: 71 x 40.7 cm (27 15/16 x 16 in.); Painting only: 59.4 x 28.2 cm (23 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.215
Public Domain
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The Nine-Dragon Falls, the main subject of this painting, is about 240 feet (74 meters) high.

Description

The Nine-Dragon Falls 구룡포 is one of the popular tourist sites at the Diamond Mountain 금강산 in North Korea. Its V-shaped valley that opens into a rushing white waterfall is its major attraction, allowing visitors to experience the powerful forces of nature. In this painting, two excited scholar tourists accompanied by a Buddhist monk are enjoying both the spectacle and the roar generated by the cascading waterfall.
A vertically oriented drawing in ink on paper depicts the Nine-Dragon Falls, black and gray jagged mountain peaks curving down slightly at which a white waterfall pours forth in a continuous stream. A rough strip of a cloud, outlined in light blue, cuts horizontally across the center of the composition. Trees with gray, green, and red speckles for leaves cover the rocks below the cloud. Three people stand on a rocky outcropping on the lower right.

Nine-Dragon Falls

late 1800s

Han Unpyeong

(Korean)
Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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