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Ten Thousand Miles along the Yellow River Unknown artist, 1690
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Ten Thousand Miles along the Yellow River

Unknown artist Β· 1690

Why it's great

A giant, long scroll follows the Yellow River of China from its mountain source across hills, villages and farms, to the sea. It was painted in the late 1600s, and the scroll is more than 20 meters long.

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πŸ“ Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States

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The artist of this work is not known. Many early portraits, prints and manuscripts were made by artists whose names were never recorded or have since been lost.

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