국립중앙박물관 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

Flowering Plants

This painting illustrates various flowers that bloom in different seasons from early spring to fall. Shin Myeongyeon painted flowers by drawing on his gardening experience and related knowledge accumulated by reading books and consulting painting manuals on flowering plants. In the margins, he used neat regular script to write lines from famous poems related to flowers or quotes from the Chinese botanical encyclopedia from the Qing Dynasty era, Guangqun fangpu.