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For this horizontal hand scroll Zheng Shan depicted a garden mansion A Symposium on the Richard Fabian Collection, 2021, pp.150-164.
named Yu Yuan (Garden Yu), also known as Zhumeng’an in Hangzhou. The paper was originally presented at the symposium at the Honolulu
At that time the owner of the estate was Xu Zeng (1824-1903), who Art Academy in 2007 in conjunction with the exhibition New Songs on
used the courtesy name Yizhai and Maisun, and was a scholar and Ancient Tunes.

art collector who befriended many poets, artists, and scholars in
Jiangnan. According to the title piece, inscription and colophons, Xu 在本手卷中，鄭珊描繪了一座名為”榆園”的園林。該庭園在杭州也被
Zeng is the patron who commissioned the poems and painting. 稱為”煮夢 ”。庭園當時的主人為許增（1824-1903）。許氏字益齋，
一字邁孫，為清末學者及收藏家，時江南一地之詩人、畫家、學者等
The eighth poem was written by Lin Shu dated Guangxu, xinchou 多與其為友。考其引首及題跋，本手卷之詩畫實為應許增要求而作。

(1901), and the last poem was by Zhao Zhiqian, who passed away in
1884. It is likely that Xu Zeng collected these poems over the years in 卷內第八則跋文由林紓所撰，紀年為光緒辛丑（1901）；而最後一則
the second half of the 19th century, and they were not mounted 跋文則出自去世於1884的趙之謙筆下。因此各題跋可能由許增在19世
紀下半葉多年間陸續匯集而成，然並未按時間順序裝裱。
in sequence.

In the inscription Zheng Shan mentioned that he met Xu Zeng in 1861. 在其題跋中，鄭珊提到他與許增分別於1861年。因此本卷所描繪的庭
It is possible that Xu Zeng held a gathering in his garden in that year 園雅聚可能就是於該年舉行，許增亦在之後開始為畫卷徵集題跋。然
and started commissioning poems afterwards. However, the painting 而，本卷直至鄭、許二人於1897年重逢時才完成。最終的詩畫合裱則
終於使中國繪畫中傳統的”文人雅集”主題得以被完整呈現。
was not completed until Zheng Shan met him again in 1897. The
unity of the texts and pictorial depiction of the patron’s garden at last 關於該卷的深入討論，可參見Janet Louise Carpenter之論文〈一場
continues the traditional theme “literati gathering” in Chinese painting. 揚州詩會與近代中國繪畫：鄭珊（1810－1899年後）〉，《史藝匯

For an in depth discussion on this scroll, see Janet Louise Carpenter’s 聚：費立哲神父珍藏中國書畫研討會論文集》，2021，頁150-164。
essay, ‘A Yangzhou Poetic Gathering and Modern Chinese Painting: 原文發表於2007年夏威夷檀香山博物館與”古調新歌”特展配合舉行之
Zheng Shan (1810-after 1899)’, in When Art Met History: 研討會。
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