이집두의 「성시전도시」

Abstract

「Seongsijeondo」is a painting depicting landscape and everyday life of Seoul in the 18th century and 「Seoungsideongdo-si」 is a kind of poetry works about 「Seongsijeondo」. In 1792, King Jeongjo asked his courtiers to make poetic works about Seongsijeongdo. So far 12 different Seongsijeondosi(two of them were written by LEE Deokmu and PARK Jega respectively) have been well known. One significant evidence of another individual participation is in the collection of Suwon Museum, Gyeonggi-do, which was written by LEE Jipdu in a form of the official paper(Gwaji 科紙). By examining these examples, we can presume in which form(s) King Jeongjo’s men made their poems and how the King evaluate their works. LEE Jipdu describes constellations and 「Gupokyodo(九幅瑤圖)」 depicting ancient tales of China’s Nine States(Provinces) in the beginning. These are kinds of literary rhetorics to build solemn atmosphere, to praise Hanyang’s firm position and brilliant capital culture, and finally to bless the city’s peaceful reign. LEE Jipdu describes Hanyang’s natural urban atmosphere: from mountains(Mt. Inwang, Mt. Baegak, and Mt. Namsan), river(Han river), city walls through main streets, houses, markets, people as well as palaces, main institutional buildings, and Han river docks. However, apart from city markets, almost all items are not so specific and realistic. It seems that his work fully reflects his desire enjoying an age of peace and prosperity. In his poem, LEE twice reversed the issue of existence of 「Seongsijeondo」, which proves that the painting was not actually existed. Given that there were many differences in time, space and pictorial formats of the painting and that LEE Yuwon(李裕元) once mentioned that 「Seongsijeondo」 was not a painting, the painting was not existed when they wrote poems and not even afterwards. Numerous trials of painting 「Seongsijeondo」 could not produce outstanding works. Accordingly King Jeongjo’s men could not see the painting when they made the poems in 1792. Their works were made with individual knowledge and personal experiences related to Hanyang. In other words, each work fully reflects personal perspectives towards the city.