Zhu Gui (printmaker)

Zhu Gui (朱圭, c. 1644–1717) was a wood carver from Qing Dynasty, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Zhu assisted Jin Guliang (金古良) in creating the Wu Shuang Pu (1694), a book with pictures of forty heroes. He also made the 46 paintings of "Tilling and Weaving" (1696), by order of Emperor Kangxi.[1][2] Furthermore he made the 146 pictures in the "Book of the ceremony of longevity" (1717), this original 1717 version of the longevity ceremony is stored in the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing in China.

Page from the Imperially commissioned illustrations of agriculture and sericulture (Tilling and Weaving) (1696). Woodblock print by Zhu Gui after designs by Jiao Bingzhen. Chester Beatty Library

Works
  • Portraits of 24 officials in the Lingyan Pavilion is a book with pictures made in 1668.[3]
  • Wu Shuang Pu by Jin Guliang is a book from 1694 with pictures and poems of 40 peerless Chinese heroes from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty. Zhu Gui helped Jin draw some of the pictures. These pictures are still used on porcelain.
  • In the period from 1696 till 1713 Zhu Gui worked for the Emperor. Like other emperors, Emperor Kangxi ordered works depicting "Tilling and Weaving", 23 of tilling and 23 of weaving. Zhu Gui did the engraving together with Mei Yufeng (梅裕鳳), Jiao Bingzhen did the painting. These pictures are still used on porcelain.
  • In 1712 Zhu Gui worked together with Mei Yufeng making 36 pictures of the summer palace.
  • "Book with pictures of the ceremony of longevity" is a series of 146 running pictures with a total length of about 50 meters, this book is made in 1717 and Zhu Gui did the engraving.[4] This book is part of the Siku Quanshu.

References
  1. Roslyn Lee Hammers (2021). The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China. ISBN 978-0367335687.
  2. Peter Golas (2015). Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. Hong Kong University Press. p. 157, 160. ISBN 9789888208159.
  3. Burkus-Chasson, Anne (2010). Through a Forest of Chancellors, Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou. Harvard-Yenching Institute USA. ISBN 9780674032804.
  4. "[图文]康乾盛世的风俗长卷——《万寿盛典图》_知网文化". wh.cnki.net. Retrieved 2021-10-13.


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