Painting

Description

Colour ink painting on paper of a tiger with a magpie resting on a branch of a pine tree (songho-do): Korea, c. 1840

Museum reference

A.1905.37.1

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Painting

Production information

Korea, East Asia

Date

c. 1840

Style / Culture

Joseon Dynasty, Korean

Materials

Paper, Ink

Associations

Lunar New Year

References

Similar piece of work by artist in same style and date at the Metropolitan Museum New York: https://www.si.edu/object/painting-tiger-magpie-pine-and-sacred-fungus-songho-do%3Anmnhanthropology_8940038

Songho-do and Ho-do (pictures of Tigers) are discussed in Yoon, Yeol-su (2006) 'Handbook of Korean Art: Folk Painting' Yekyong Publishing, Korea