Lot 185 清乾隆 廣陵名勝圖 | Album of Celebrated Views of Guangling

清乾隆 廣陵名勝圖 | Album of Celebrated Views of Guangling

Qing dynasty, Qianlong period

GBP 200

Estimate: £500 - £800

each leaf 26.8 × 21.8 cm, the album overall 30.7 × 28 × 1.3 cm

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Album of Celebrated Views of Guangling
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
Woodblock printing on paper, comprising eighteen leaves, including nine landscape illustrations with accompanying inscriptions, each leaf 26.8 × 21.8 cm, the album overall 30.7 × 28 × 1.3 cm.
Cf. The Complete Album of Celebrated Views of Guangling comprises forty-eight scenes in total, divided into two volumes, each containing twenty-four illustrated pages with corresponding inscriptions. The nine illustrations in the present lot are all from the upper volume. According to existing research, both the author and the date of publication remain unknown. Based on references within the text to Emperor Qianlong’s southern tours, the seventieth birthday celebration of the Empress Dowager, and the recorded terms of local officials, the album is generally considered to have been produced in the mid-to-late Qianlong period.
A version of this work is held in the National Library of China, access no. 地750.22/101.84. Compared with the present lot, one version presents a more panoramic, wide-angle view, while the other offers closer, more detailed compositions. Another vertical-format edition is held in the Capital Museum. The textual content across the three versions is broadly consistent, with occasional omissions or minor revisions.
From the Kangxi to the Qianlong reigns, southern regions of the Yangtze River remained a major centre for the construction and flourishing of private gardens and scenic sites. During the Qianlong period, Guangling (present-day Yangzhou), owing to its convenient position along the Grand Canal and its role in north–south grain transport, developed into a key hub of commercial and logistical exchange as well as a major mercantile city. A large number of salt merchants settled and conducted business there, competing in the construction of private residences and garden estates, which in turn made Yangzhou a focal point of garden design and landscape cultivation.
In relation to Yangzhou’s garden culture, a corpus of garden imagery emerged through ink painting and woodblock-printed illustrations. Literati painters and commercial print workshops jointly produced a series of garden-related visual works, particularly notable during the Qianlong period. Representative examples include Illustrations of Pingshan Hall, Scenic Views of Jiangnan Gardens, and Yangzhou Huafang Lu. The Complete Album of Celebrated Views of Guangling is one such example. As a visualised geographical gazetteer, it reflects the commercial vitality, garden culture, and literati aesthetics of the period, and serves as an important visual source for understanding the local prosperity of the Qianlong period.
清乾隆 廣陵名勝圖
木板印刷冊頁
《廣陵名勝全圖》共四十八景，分上下兩冊，每冊二十四幅景觀插圖及相應題識，本拍品中的九幅皆出自上冊。据現有研究，作者不詳，出版時間不詳。根據文本内容中提及的乾隆皇帝南巡，皇太后七十壽辰，及當地官員任職時間推斷，該版畫圖冊應製于乾隆朝中後期。
現有一版本藏於中國國家圖書館，訪問編號：地750.22/101.84。此版與本拍品相較，一版為宏觀遠景，一版為特寫近景。另有一竪開本藏於首都博物館。三版本文總體大致相同，偶有刪改。
康熙至乾隆時期，江南依舊是私家園林和風景名勝的營造中心與薈萃之地。乾隆年間，廣陵，現揚州，因京杭大運河水運便利，成爲南北漕運的要冲，商業中心城市。大量鹽商在此定居經商，爭相營造私宅園林，揚州因此成爲園林造景的中心。圍繞揚州園林，以墨水畫及木刻版畫插圖為媒介，文人畫家和書坊刻工生產了出現了一批園林圖像，其中尤以乾隆年間的圖像為名。如《平山堂圖製》刊刻，《江南園林勝景圖》，《揚州畫舫錄》等。《廣陵名勝全圖》即為其中一例，作爲視覺化的地理志，反映了當時的商業、園林及士人審美，成爲理解「乾隆盛世地方繁華」的重要圖像資料。
題識：
香阜寺
在運河之東，崖岸稍峻，宛如岡阜，俗名小五臺山。康熙三十八年，聖祖仁皇帝南巡，賜今名，又賜名香清梵四字額，并頒賜諸珍物法寶。乾隆十六年、二十二年、二十七年，皇上南巡，俱賜御書聯額、詩章。內恭備坐起，並修餙寺宇，洒掃路徑，俱前任戶部郎中谷雲陛敬謹辦理。
竹西芳徑
揚州城北十里有上方寺，一名禪智寺，又名竹西寺。舊藏石刻，唐吳道子畫寶誌像，李白贊，顔真卿書，亦稱三絶碑。歲久石泐，今存者，明僧本初所重刻也。又有蘇軾送李孝博詩，石刻在壁間。寺旁爲竹西亭，唐杜牧詩：「誰知竹西路，歌吹是揚州。」亭之名以此。宋郡守向子固改歌吹亭。乾隆十九年，翰林院編修程夢星重建，名仍其舊。廣陵勝槩，兹亭實據上游，每天日晴朗，遥睇北固諸山，如在襟帶間。亭西有崑邱臺，相傳宋歐陽修以爲游觀之勝。今候選知縣尉涵山俱重加修葺。
卷石洞天
奉宸苑卿銜洪徴治叠石爲山，玲瓏窈窕，邱壑天然，有夕陽紅半樓爲舊人結構。次則爲堂爲室，爲橋爲溪，導河水虢虢循除鳴。
杏花村舍
王勖搆竹籬茅舍於杏花深處，當春深時節，繁英着雨，小閣臨風，屋角鳴鳩，簾前語燕，殊有端居樂趣。
臨水紅霞
周柟於此種桃千樹。春波瀲灧，落照緋花，不異朝霞初出時也。
城闉清梵
面北城者，舊爲舍利禪院，乾隆十六年，皇上南巡，賜名慧因寺。西爲斗姥宫，聖祖仁皇帝賜「大智光」三字額。旁有苑圃，修篁叢桂，境地清幽。候補道畢本恕作香悟亭，風篁精舍，寺鐘初動，梵唱同聲，抑亦静中之緣。今歸候選鹽課提舉閔世儼修葺。其西有居人汪熙寧葯園，小築數椽，藤牀渠几，茗椀香爐，得雅人之致。蒔芍葯，頗多異種，尤工音律，轉喉拍板，洞蕭和之，清歌嘹嚦，逈異俗韻。
豐市層樓
在鎮淮門，門即北外。東曰長春巷，曰豐樂街，瀕臨城河，高岸歷級而上，皆為列肆排比，構接望若層樓。集百產之豐腴，覘四民之熙皞，摩肩連袂，徵貴取贏。揚州固東南富庶之地，夫亦惟是久樂昇平，故民物之盛乃爾。豐樂街之東，即天寧寺。舊傳為晉謝安別墅。義熙中，有梵僧佛馱跋陀羅尊者譯「華嚴經」於此。諸叔度為請於謝琰，捨為興教寺。寺中有萬佛樓，供佛萬有一千一百尊。在唐為證聖寺，宋改天寧寺。
聖祖仁皇帝屢賜御書墨寶。
皇上南巡
御製聯額：「試章增煇，法苑永振宗風。」寺西餘地曰枝上村，曰杏園。奇石古樹，谽谺蓊鬱。有銀杏二，尤蒼古，相傳為謝安手植。乾隆二十一年，商人先建行宮於此。二十五年，商人以辛巳年恭逢。
皇太后七旬萬壽普天同慶，皇上躬奉皇太后安與，再巡江浙，行慶施惠，盛典光昭，商人感幸同聲，重加修葺於此，供駐蹕而肅觀瞻。內奉御書「大觀堂」額，并對聯詩章。
倚虹園
前刑部尚書王士正司李揚州，會當時名流賦「冶春」二十首，后遂以修禊為廣陵故事。揚人及四方知名之士，相逢令節，臨水采蘭，追觴詠之幽情，為風流之高會。橋始束板為之，按察使銜黃履昴易之以石。洪徽治于橋之東南，為修禊之所。高樓連苑，華屋生春；踠地垂楊，明湖若鏡。中間有峰有嶼，突兀巑岏，若大江之望小姑。又有領芳軒，軒前牡丹最盛。穀雨佳辰，錦幃初卷，香濃艷異，自具富麗之觀。
乾隆二十七年，皇上賜名「倚虹園」。
御書匾額，并「柳拖弱縷學垂手，梅展芳姿初試嚬」對一聯，又「明月松間照，清泉石上流」對一聯。
冶春詩社
王士正賦「冶春詞」即此地也。冶春本酒家樓，後為候選州同王士銘園亭。今捐知府銜田毓瑞購而新之，增置高亭畫檻，與倚虹園諸勝遙遙映帶。
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【名称】
清乾隆 廣陵名勝圖
【年代】
清，乾隆时期
【描述】
木板印刷册页，包含十八页，其中九幅风景插图配有题识，每页尺寸26.8 × 21.8厘米，整本册页尺寸30.7 × 28 × 1.3厘米。
题识：
香阜寺
竹西芳径
卷石洞天
杏花村舍
临水红霞
城闉清梵
丰市层楼
圣祖仁皇帝屡赐御书墨宝。
皇上南巡
倚虹园
冶春诗社