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One Hundred Boys
Not on view
“One Hundred Boys” is a popular pictorial subject that expresses an agricultural society’s abiding wish for teeming male offspring. Here, the prominent presence of lanterns suggests the occasion of the Lantern Festival, the climactic ending of the New Year’s celebrations, held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
This print, in the hanging scroll format, was made with three horizontal woodblocks impressed on a large sheet of paper. The complex architecture and fine line shading reveal knowledge of Western copperplate engravings introduced by the Jesuits.
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