The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Six: Entering Suzhou along the Grand Canal, 清 徐揚 等 乾隆南巡圖 （第六卷﹕大運河至蘇州） 卷, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1770, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 27 1/8 in. x 784 1/2 in. (68.8 x 1994 cm), Paintings, Xu Yang (Chinese, active ca. 1750–after 1776) and assistants, The court painter Xu Yang, a native of Suzhou, was commissioned by the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–95) to record in twelve monumental handscrolls the emperor's historic 1751 tour of south China. This scroll, the longest of the twelve, chronicles the lavish pageantry of the emperor's arrival in Suzhou
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