ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM 43 Wǔ Tíngguì 武廷桂 (Chinese, active 19th century) Eight Views of Guānzhōng, carving 1860, rubbing ca. first half 20th century Woodblock prints, ink on paper Friends of Art Fund, 1950.105–112 Ink Rubbings For millennia in China, important texts have been carved into flat stone tablets, or stelae, that were erected in public spaces. By the early seventh century, people began making copies of these inscriptions by placing large sheets of dampened paper over them, pressing the paper into the carved-out text or image, and then patting the surface of the paper with inked pads. This simple form of printing resulted in the carved out text or image appearing white on a black background. These rubbings became highly prized by scholars and were widely distributed and exchanged. In some cases, ink rubbings preserved the inscriptions of stelae now lost or damaged. 5. MorningBell at YànPagoda 6. Ancient Port at Xiányáng 7. Smoke andFogat CǎotángTemple 8. Perpetual SnowatMt. Tàibái
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