규장각 소장 『경상도명승도』 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to introduce to Eight Famous Views of Gyengsang-Province, a fold screen painting of eight panels which depict the eight famous spots in the Gyeongsang province, and to circumstantiate evidences surrounded the production of the painting. Eight panels consist of four in the left side of Gyengsang province and other four in the right side there; the Manha Pavilion of Tongyeong, the Yeongho Pavilion of Andong, the Haein Temple of Hapcheon, the Chockseok Pavilion of Jinju, the Suseng Pavilion of Geochang, the Molun Pavilion of Donglae, the Yongnam Pavilion of Milyang, and the Naeyeon Mountain of Pohang. There are inscriptions describing scenic features and historical meanings on each panel. Among these eight views the first panel for the Manha Pavilion is the most important one because only this view has a particularly long poem and significant information for dating the production of this fold screen. According to the poems and some evidences, O Heong-muk seems to do main roles in making this fold screen. O wrote poems after visiting to all the spots except for the Yeongho Pavilion, the Suseng Pavilion and the Naeyeon Mountain, and he composed many poems especially after the Manha Pavilion which is emphasized in the painting. More evidences about O’s role are found; he worked as a governor of Koseong from 1893 to 1894 and he published Yeojaechoalyo. This fold screen painting seems to be made in the three years from 1892, the year after three hundred years, to 1895. A building called as Tongjeyeong which is described vividly in the inscription on the painting was disappeared in 1895. Besides, many lines of the inscriptions on the painting referred to the governor at that time. Eight Famous Views of Gyengsang-Province looks to be painted by a competent professional painter who was working in the Gyengsang province. The painter tried to employ the style of literati -painting which was popular in the professional painting at that time. This screen is also a valuable record showing local prides and positive information of the place, comparing to the well-known painting, Famous Views of Yongnam painted by Kim Yungyeom.