Unidentified panel from one of the Wu Family Shrines (Wu Liang Tzu)
Unidentified Han Dynasty maker, Chinese, 206 BCE - 220 CE
147-168
Rubbing wax on paper
Impression: 24 × 48 in. (61 × 121.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Partial gift of Mrs. George Pettengill Jr., in memory of her sons, George Tilford Pettengill, III (1909-1944), Class of 1932 and William Van Horne Pettengill (1914-1952), Class of 1937 and partial purchase through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
MIS.967.48.7
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
1-500
Object Name
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Course History
HUM 3.02, Two Empires under the Sun, Roberta Stewart and Gil Raz, Spring 2019
Provenance
Collected by Leila Price Pettengill (1887-1977), Washington, D.C., in China, before 1930; given to present collection, 1967.
Catalogue Raisonne
Wu Hung, The Wu Liang Shrine, Stanford University Press, 1989, fig. 8, South Wall (Front 12 - 117).
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