清
冊 紙本設色
Qing dynasty
Album leaf, ink and colors on paper
30.4cm (H) x 68cm (W)
〈海錯圖〉有四冊,國立故宮博物院藏第四冊。此冊畫鱟、螺、蟹、蝦等海中生物,無款印,每幅楷書題名并讚。第一冊序文云:「時康熙戊寅(1698年)仲夏,閩客聶璜存庵氏題於海疆之釣鰲磯。」聶璜是錢塘(今浙江杭州)人,客遊南北各地近廿載,後將所聞所見的諸多海物,集稿謄繪成〈海錯圖〉冊。
Illustrated Album of Sea
Miscellany has four albums and the fourth album is in the National Palace Museum. This album depicts such marine life as horseshoe crabs, snails, crabs and shrimp. With no seal or signature of the artist, each painting has a title and explanation of praise in regular script.The preface to the first album states that in the summer of 1698, Nie Huang travelled to Fujian and visited coastal areas. Nie, a native of Qiantang (modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang), travelled all over the land for nearly 20 years. He later gathered illustrations of the many sea creatures he had seen and heard of in Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany.