芥子園畫傳 (Jie zi yuan hua zhuan)

《芥子園畫傳》 五冊
沈心友輯
清嘉慶五年[1800]金陵芥子園刻本(彩色套印)

“The Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting” (5 volumes)
Compiled by Shen Xinyou
Published in Jinling in 1800
Woodblock printing (multi-color)

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Like UW’s edition of 貴州百苗圖 (Guizhou bai Miao tu), also cataloged for this CLIR project, the color for the illustrations was not added with paint, but rather using a color woodblock printing technique.