沈心海Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll depicting a scholar appreciating plum blossoms in mountain landscape, accompanied by his student. Brown watercolour highlights around the figures' waistsSigned Xinhai Shen Zhaohan, dated year wuxu jiayue (1898, November, Luna calendar), with a dedication and with one seal of the artist. Inscription in the top left corner 122 by 32.8 cm. (48 by 13 in.) Provenance: Important private Canadian painting and calligraphy collection.