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Title: Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River
Artist: Fei Danxu (Fei Tan-hsü)
Artist Life Dates: 1802-1850
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1847
Accession Number: 1982/2.4
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
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Primary Keywords: calligraphy; figures; goddesses; gods; legendary figures; rivers; woman

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Title: Angry Neptune
Artist: Michele Oka Doner
Physical Description: Large bronze sculpture resembling a headless human figure. The surface texture is very rough with deep voids and coarse patches of metal. The brown patina has a whitish tinge.
Artist Life Dates: Born 1945
Object Creation Date: 2008
Accession Number: 2009/1.466
Medium and Support: cast bronze
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Primary Keywords: bronze (metal); figures (representations); legendary figures; outdoor sculpture

Title: A Han Dynasty Envoy Navigating on a Tree-Raft
Artist: Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting)
Physical Description: This is a dense but muted landscape painting. The lines are very well defined. The colors consit of muted greens and browns, with a bid of red in some places. There is a river flowing through the center of the painting, running down the landscape and toward the viewer. There is a figure sitting on a gnarled tree-raft towards the bottom left of the painting, with another figure looking upon the scene from the opposite bank of the river. There are ornate buildings present toward the top of the panting. The viewer can see a lone figure in an interior covered by stylized clouds.
Artist Life Dates: 1647 - circa 1705
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1696
Accession Number: 1985/2.30
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
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Primary Keywords: figures (representations); houses; legendary figures; mountains; oxen; rafts; trees; waterfalls

Title: Apollyon
Artist: William Blake
Physical Description: Drawing of militaristic angels approaching two men fighting at sea. One angels holds a bow and above and to the right are three more angels carrying clouds. On the left of the image is a serpent curled around a tree.
Artist Life Dates: 1757-1827
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 1757-1827
Accession Number: 1954/1.209
Medium and Support: graphite on white paper
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Primary Keywords: arrows; fighting; figures; legendary figures; serpent; storms; trees; water; winged

Title: The Rat's Wedding
Artist: Utagawa Toyoharu
Physical Description: The majority of this print depicts a deep architectural setting. In front of the buildings a wedding procession takes place. Rats, in daimyo fashion, are celebrating.
Artist Life Dates: 1735-1814
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1960/1.162
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 13.26171
Primary Keywords: architecture (object genre); crowd; legendary figures; mice; wedding

Title: Proserpine
Artist: Hiram Powers
Physical Description: Bust-length white marble sculpture of a young female figure crowned with a plait of wheat and framed along the bottom with a wreath of sculpted acanthus leaves.
Artist Life Dates: 1805 - 1873
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: second version: modeled 1844; cut 1847
Accession Number: 1991/2.40
Medium and Support: Seravezza marble
relevance: rank 12.53151
Primary Keywords: bust; bust-length; busts; classical; figures (representations); legendary figures; marble; mythology; mythology (literary genre); neoclassical; sculpture; woman; women

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