Title: Letters to Fang Shiguan
Object type: Album
Date: datable to ca. 1688–1705
Culture: China
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Artist:  Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) 
Artist bio: Chinese, 1626–1705
Artist nationality: Chinese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Album of ten leaves; ink on patterned and plain paper
Dimensions: Image (leaf a, right letter): 7 3/4 x 5 7/16 in. (19.7 x 13.8 cm)
Image (leaf a, left letter): 7 1/4 x 4 9/16 in. (18.4 x 11.6 cm)
Image (leaf b, right letter): 7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in. (19.1 x 13.2 cm)
Image (leaf b, left letter): 7 x 4 9/16 in. (17.8 x 11.6 cm)
Image (leaf c, right letter): 7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in. (19.1 x 13.2 cm)
Image (leaf c, left letter): 7 1/4 x 4 9/16 in. (18.4 x 11.6 cm)
Image (leaf d, right letter): 7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in. (19.1 x 13.2 cm)
Image (leaf d, left letter): 7 1/4 x 4 9/16 in. (18.4 x 11.6 cm)
Image (leaf e, right letter): 7 5/8 x 5 3/16 in. (19.4 x 13.2 cm)
Image (leaf e, left letter): 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Classification: Calligraphy
Credit line: Gift of John M. Crawford Jr., 1982
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY