Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru.

About Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru

This grass-style Chinese calligraphy titled Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru was written by the famous calligrapher Huang Tingjian (1045–1105) in the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). The overall handscroll is 34.3 centimetres (13.5 in) in height and 2,178.4 centimetres (71.47 ft) in length and contains 652 identifiable Chinese characters. The manuscript was originally collected by New York art collector John M. Crawford Jr. (1909–1988), and currently collected by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.