Leaf & Spine

Cover art · birds

Lotuses, Insects, and Birds

Unknown artist, 1800s.

Lotuses, Insects, and Birds
Lotuses, Insects, and Birds — Cleveland Museum of Art

Using it on a cover

The print file prints up to 5.7 x 11.3 in at 300 ppi — fine for smaller trims or inset artwork, but too small to fill a 6 x 9 in cover at 300 ppi. Taller than a 6 x 9 cover: crop about 24% of the height.

About the work

Pairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Given its subject matter, this hanging scroll may have been hung for display during the summer.

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