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Chinese Gate
Chinese Gate
Artist/Maker (British, 1886 – 1973)
Date1939
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsComposition: 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (6.4 × 6.4 cm) Sheet: 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (16.5 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2001.4.434.11
Not on view

Additional Details

Alternate Titles [Ink Drawing of a Chinese Temple]
Provenance 1973 or earlier: Private collection of Omar S. Pound, by gift or inheritance
2001: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery) by gift of Omar S. Pound
Published References Omar Pound, "The Dying Sorcerer." Antigonish, Nova Scotia: Tarlane Editions, 1985. Illus. p.35.
Inscribed Inscribed in ink at lower left: tailpiece
Chinese characters: to stop, right/proper, to go back, and up
Chinese characters: to stop, right/proper, to go back, and up
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.20
[Chinese Calligraphy Sketches]
[Chinese Calligraphy Sketches]
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.28
Chinese characters: person/people, woman, enter, soldier/bachelor/scholar, big, corpse, long stride, step with left foot, dagger-axe, dog, old, blunt/tough, behavior, red, body, food, and clothes
Chinese characters: person/people, woman, enter, soldier/bachelor/scholar, big, corpse, long stride, step with left foot, dagger-axe, dog, old, blunt/tough, behavior, red, body, food, and clothes
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.29
Chinese character: enemy (verso)
Chinese character: enemy (verso)
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil and green crayon on paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.30
Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"
Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.31
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Pyrenees
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: October 1919
Medium: Ink and pencil on paper
Object number: 1994.93
Design for the cover of "Catholic Anthology"
Design for the cover of "Catholic Anthology"
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1914-15
Medium: India ink and graphite on paper
Object number: 1994.95
Photo by Mark DiOrio
Canto 45
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Pencil with red ink on watercolor paper
Object number: 2001.4.486.1
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Study of a hilltown
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: April 1924
Medium: Ink and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.128
Sketch of a squirel
Sketch of a squirel
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2001.4.188
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Canto 47 sketch 2
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2001.4.253
Design for Il Mare, Supplemento Letterario stationary: Griffin
Design for Il Mare, Supplemento Letterario stationary: Griffin
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1932
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2001.4.466