Villa of Cloud Watching MountainA single handscroll, the frontpiece title by Zhang Xianghe (1785-1862), ink on ld-flecked paper, dated yisi (1845), with two seals Daya and Cengyou Guilin ershisi yandong; first painting section by Yu Zouyan, ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist, dated Jiachen (1844), with one artist's seal Zouyan, and one collector's seal Yong'an Shen shi cang shuhua yin; the third section of poems in running script by Zhang Xianghe, dated jiachen (1844), followed by two seals Shiling and Cengyou guilin ershisi yandong, three collectors' seals; the fourth section of eight continuous paintings in album format by Yan Langru, ink on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist, with one artist's seal Langru, and two collector's seals one reading Yong'an Shen shi cang shuhua yin, dated dingsi (1845); the last section of essays by various artists, including Wu Jiamao, Liu Danian, Wu Jing, Wu Kai, Yu Yingsong, and Huang Antao, the scroll with the outer titleslip inscribed by Jin Yue (1892-1972), with a seal Junxuan.Frontpiece title: 12 7/8 x 51in (32.8 x 129.3cm); Painting by Yu Zouyan: 12 7/8 x 39 5/8in (32.9 x 100.5cm); Poems by Zhang Xianghe: 12 1/4 x 74 1/2in (31.1 x 189.2cm);Painting by Yan Bing: 12 3/8 x 78 1/2in (31.3 x 199.5cm 余奏言 望雲山莊圖 設色紙本 手卷 一八四四年作張祥河題詠 水墨紙本 一八四四年作顏炳 望雲山莊八景圖 水墨紙本 一八四五年作吳家懋、劉大年、吳敬、吳楷、余應松、黃安濤題跋 水墨紙本 Provenance/來源:China Guardian, Beijing, 28 October 1998, lot 843 中國嘉德，北京，1998年10月28日，拍品編號843Published/出版:Toda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013, A50-39, pp. 194-195戶田禎佑、小川裕充，《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編，第一卷，東京大學出版會，東京，2013年，A50-39，頁194-195Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao. Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War Through the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979, San Francisco: Echo Rock Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000, p. 165Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao,《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，李鐘文亞洲藝術文化中心，舊金山，加州，2000年，頁165Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007, pp. 480-481Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年，頁480-481Exhibited/展覽:Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2000-January 14, 2001《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，舊金山，加州，2000年10月25日至2001年1月14日New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年8月30日至10月28日The centerpiece of this handscroll is the Villa of Cloud Watching Mountain (Wangyun shanzhuang), a garden estate belonged to the patron of the work - Zhang Xianghe. Zhang Xianghe was a prominent Qing official, who used the courtesy name Yuanqin, and sobriquets Shiling, Fahua shanren. He was a native of Songjiang (today's Shanghai). The handscroll comprises five sections by various artists. It starts with Zhang Xianghe's own title piece. Then in the first painting section, Yu Zouyan created a panoramic-like view, in which simultaneously presented the architecture and the surrounding landscape. In contrast to Yu Zouyan's work, Yan Bing featured the eight views of the villa in album leaf format individually. The eight views correspondent to the eight poems composed by Zhang Xianghe, mounted before Yan Bing's painting. To accompany the visual presentation of the villa, Zhang Xianghe further invited his friend to write poems and essays on the same subject. In the first essay, Wu Jiamao not only admired the beauty of the villa like others did, but also praised the filial piety of Zhang Xianghe – he built the villa so that his mother could enjoy the tranquility. The Villa of Cloud Watching Mountain was destroyed during the wars of the 20th century. However, this handscroll survived the turmoil and preserves the rich history of garden design of the Jiangnan region.