Zhu Yunming 1460-1526

signed Zhishan Yunming, with two seals of the artist, zhu yun ming yin, and one other (illegible). Colophon by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), signed Zhengming, dated jiawu of the Jiajing reign, the fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month (October 21, 1534), with four seals, ting yun, wei geng yin wu yi jiang, wen zheng ming yin, heng shan, and one seal of the collector Robert H. Ellsworth, an si yuan cang (2)

Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy,
Yale University Art Gallery, April 6 to June 27, 1977; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, September 20 to November 27, 1977

Shen C. Y. Fu, Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy, Yale University Art Gallery, 1977, cat. no. 37, p. 209, 227, 266-267
Robert H. Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, pl. 20

According to Fu Shen, "Originally, this transcription contained all eight poems from Du Fu's set, but the present scroll contains only the last two, followed by Zhu Yunming's signature. Wen Zhengming saw the scroll in 1534 and completed the missing six poems on a separate sheet of paper which is mounted following Zhu Yunming's writing, thus authenticating the original. The high quality of both sections also speaks for their genuineness." (Traces, p. 209)