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1.7Jiao Bingzhen, Imperially Composed Pictures of Tilling and Weaving, 1696. Imperially commissioned polychrome woodblock prints after paintings. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2650-128)

In this representative image, several imported elements associated with linear perspective are incorporated to create the impression of space that recedes deeply away from the viewer: the deep distance visible along the river flowing away behind the rice paddy on the right side of the image; the dramatic diminution in size of the trees and figures relative to those in the foreground; the recession of the architecture along the sharply oblique