ID: 700008981 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008981	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Traveling Monk (painting (visual work); unknown Chinese; ca. 851/900; British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United King...; 1919,0101,0.168 (Ch.00380))

Note: Front: Painting of a travelling monk, shown wearing a hat, with a load of scrolls on his back, and fan in left hand. Behind him is a tiger, and in front, a small Buddha supported by a cloud. Ink and colors on paper. Rendered in brisk ink line with orange, russet, and gray coloration,this cloud-borne traveler carries a wooden-frame pack filled withscrolls, his lips parted, perhaps in mid-chant. Surviving in numerousversions at Dunhuang, he has been widely interpreted as amonk transporting sacred texts, an iconic figure in the history ofcultural transfer along the Silk Road.

Titles:

Traveling Monk (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Painting / 繪畫 (C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

遊方僧圖 (C,U,Chinese-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

Asian art (preferred)

paintings

Creation Date: ca. 851/900

Creator Display:

unknown Chinese [preferred]

artist unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222]

Locations:

Current: British Museum (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500125180] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1919,0101,0.168 (Ch.00380)

Credit Line: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919

Other: Discovery: Qianfodong [7029798] Gansu province (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Ink and pigments on paper; painted

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	pigments [300013109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, colorant (material))

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	painting (image-making) [300054216]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <painting and painting techniques>)

Dimensions: Painted image: 41 x 30 centimetres; Painting in mount: 56 x 40.7 centimetres

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	monk (people) [300025765]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, religious (people)) (AAT)

	traveler (person by activity) [300025879]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

	nun [300025770]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, religious (people)) (AAT)

	Buddha [901000851]
	.....((Buddhist characters, Buddhist iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Collected by: Sir Marc Aurel Stein; Acquisition date 1919 Exhibited: 1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.161 1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.161 1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.161 1996 14 Jun-29 Sep, London, The British Library, The Mythical Quest 1999, Nara, Silk Road and the World of Xuanzang, (no. 200). 2016 7 May-4 Sep, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road

Related Works:

	former location was .... Mogao Cave 17 [700008877]
	..........rock-cut temple; N/A; begun 9th century

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Works at Mogao

Sources and Contributors:
Traveling Monk	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 7
Painting / 繪畫	........ [VP]
	........ British Museum [online] (1999-)
遊方僧圖	........ [VP]
	........ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016) Cat 7

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)