Print of the Day!! Wednesday, July 15, 2020; Elyse Ashe Lord (1885-1971); "Miao Shan";mixed technique intaglio; ca. 1930; 18/100. $600.00.
Print of the Day!! Wednesday, July 15, 2020, is by British printmaker Elyse Ashe Lord (1885-1971). A Wednesday offering for July 15, 2020, a color intaglio - a Chinese myth.
"Miao Shan" is a mixed technique intaglio; a drypoint and color aquatint with additional color applied with colored woodcuts by British printmaker Elyse Ashe Lord (1885-1971), done around 1930. The platemark measures 11-13/16 x 9-7/8". It is pencil signed and editioned "18/100" beneath the lower platemark. This impression was printed by the artist on a sheet of thin, ivory wove paper that measures 16-1/4 x 13-1/4" and was published by Messrs. Walter Bull & Sanders, Cork St., London. An impression was included in "Fine Prints of the Year", 1931, plate 28, in black and white.
This mixed technique color intaglio by British printmaker Elyse Ashe Lord is available from the gallery for $600.00.
Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law. Time payments can be arranged. Contact the gallery for any condition or other questions.Miao Shan (or Miaoshan) is widely regarded as a popular iteration of the Buddhist bodhisattva known as Avalokitesvara - translated into Chinese as Guanyin - the bodhisattva of compassion or mercy. In his research, 11th-century Chinese Buddhist monk Jiang Zhiqui interpreted the story of Guanyin as that of the princess Miao shan, who had a religious following on the Fragrant Mountain.
This has since been interpreted in several ways, yet the core story remains similar: On the verge of being forced into marriage by her father the king, she said she would obey his order as long as the marriage eased three misfortunes: the suffering that accompanies illness, old age, and death. When asked by her father who could perform such a miracle, she said that only a doctor could. Angered that his daughter would suggest that she marry a doctor rather than a wealthy man, he banished her first to hard labor in the hopes of deterring her; when that did not work, he ordered her to be executed and her spirit sent to hell.
Miaoshan was carried into the hell realm by a supernatural tiger; yet upon arrival, she was impervious to torture. Flowers blossomed all around her, and she played music for the other spirits trapped in the realm - the flowers and music being symbols of the release of her vast karmic compassion. In the end, her very presence in hell transformed the realm into a paradise and the suffering spirits were sent back into Heaven and Earth.
The supernatural tiger appears in more than one iteration of this tale, as a kind of vehicle of transformation. In Elyse Ashe Lord's depiction, Miaoshan and the tiger journey to the Fragrant Mountain, her final destination, and reward for her good deed.
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