Gyeongjinnyeon Yeonhaengdocheop

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2084

Category

Painting

Era

1761년(영조 37)

Designated year

2020

Location

서대문구, 서울특별시— 서울특별시 서대문구

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An album of paintings of a royal envoy’s trip to Yanjing (Treasure No. 2084) is an album of paintings made to report the content of a royal envoy’s trip from Hanyang (present-day Seoul) to Yanjing (present-day Beijing) between November 1760 and April of the following year to the King. It is composed of the pictures that were painted by a painter (known to be Yi Pilseong) who accompanied the royal envoy Hong Gyehui including the pictures of the site of Shenyangguan House, Confucian historic sites in Beijing, Shanhaiguan, etc., a drawing about the locations of mortuary tablets within a building, and epilogue about the pictures-related content The pictures are divided into landscape paintings of real scenery and paintings of buildings in royal palaces. Movable perspective-type bird’s-eye-view and parallel oblique line-type perspective were both used in the paintings. They fully display the class of royal palace-related paintings with the use of jade color, whose saturation and brightness are high, which could only be found in royal palace-related record paintings of the mid-18th Century. The purpose of the production of the one in the subject is clear. It is also clear when it was made. It includes King Yeongjo’s handwriting. Explanatory comments are provided for better understanding of the pictures. It also displays an aspect of royal palace-related paintings of the mid-18th Century, whose three-dimensional effect is noticeable. It is a valuable material from a perspective of fine art history in such respects. It also serves as a material that provides information on the country’s society in the late Joseon Period along with political, diplomatic, and cultural aspects. Thus, it deserves being preserved/managed.