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| Keywords: Qian Feng - Calligraphy - Walters 35181.jpg An important government official and poet Qian Feng Ch'ien Feng is remembered for his courage in speaking out against corruption in high places Here he as written that Sima Guang Ssu-ma Kuang 1019-1086 a Song-dynasty historian and conservative politician had inscribed these words at the top of a mountain The secret of mountain climbing is to walk slowly so that you will not tire and to put down your feet on level spots so that you will not stumble This one should know between 1740 1795 ink paper cm 123 2 42 accession number 35 181 19065 Sale Christie's New York December 2 1992 no 64 Walters Art Museum 1992 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1992 Signature Feng; Seal Three seals of the artist; Seal one collector's seal place of origin China Walters Art Museum license 2D Art of China in the Walters Art Museum Qian Feng Chinese calligraphy of China Calligraphy of the Qing Dynasty Mountaineering in art 18th-century texts Anti-corruption | ||||
