Wuhu iron painting: how iron becomes a picture
Forging, drawing and teaching meet in a craft that asks a metalworker to think like a painter.
Wuhu.
A Yangtze port city whose commercial history, craft traditions and river crossings belong to different layers of urban life.
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Wuhu’s old street, an open port and its shops
Museum-held boundary stones turn the story of Wuhu’s treaty-port era from an abstract date into marks placed on a city’s ground.
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Tang Peng’s iron picture “Stream and Mountain Mist,” displayed in the Zhenjiang Museum; photograph by 猫猫的日记本 (2011).猫猫的日记本 (photographer; uploader) · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by 猫猫的日记本 (photographer; uploader) (30 October 2011); licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The saved file is the standard 1280px Wikimedia thumbnail (1280×1707), not the upstream original (3,240 × 4,320, 2.17 MB); no enlargement, crop, or retouching.
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Wuhu’s Former Customhouse, viewed from the southwest; photograph by 猫猫的日记本, 12 May 2012. This port-city landmark provides context for the treaty-port story; it is not one of the four boundary stones discussed in the article.猫猫的日记本 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ The saved file is the standard 1280px Wikimedia thumbnail (1280×960), not the 4320×3240 upstream original. The file page credits 猫猫的日记本 and states CC BY-SA 3.0. No added watermark or overlay is visible in the saved image.
