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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Rubbing of a Stone from the Tang-Fang Collection
1900–1919
(1644-1911) or Republican period (1912-49)
Overall: 67 x 234.3 cm (26 3/8 x 92 1/4 in.); Rubbing only: 52.4 x 164.8 cm (20 5/8 x 64 7/8 in.)
Gift of Yamanaka & Company 1919.77
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
To make a rubbing, a moistened sheet of paper is laid over an image and tamped with an ink pad that then colors the raised areas, while leaving concave sections and incised lines white.Description
The procession of figures, riders, and chariots correspond in part to a section from the east wall in stone chamber 2 of the Wu Liang shrine.- ?-1916Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 5 (1919): 97-98. Mentioned: p. 97 www.jstor.org
- From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (從石窟到墓祠—石刻拓片). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).
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