Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"

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Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"
Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"
Artist/Maker (British, 1886 – 1973)
Datedate unknown
MediumPencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (29.5 × 11.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2001.4.503.31
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 2001: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
by 1973 - 2001: Omar S. Pound, by gift or inheritance from Dorothy Shakespear.
Markings Watermark: "EXTRA STRONG" at lower center.
Signature Signed "DS" at lower right in red pencil.
Inscribed No inscriptions noted.
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 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 Calligraphy Sketches]
[Chinese Calligraphy Sketches]
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.28
Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Horst Faas
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.198
[Ink Drawing of a Chinese Temple]
[Ink Drawing of a Chinese Temple]
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: n.d.
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 2001.4.434.11
Pyrenees
Pyrenees
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: October 1919
Medium: Ink and pencil on paper
Object number: 1994.93
Portrait of Katherine Regina
Portrait of Katherine Regina
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: August 1910
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.24
Coal Barge in mist, Rye
Coal Barge in mist, Rye
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: September 1908
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.32
Barge Dordrecht
Barge Dordrecht
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: May 1906
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.33
Near Southborough
Near Southborough
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1907
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.45
Study of a Fir Tree, Crookham
Study of a Fir Tree, Crookham
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: September 1907
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.47