清 倣梅清 響山泛舟圖 軸, Boating beneath Echo Hill, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), datable to 1673, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 53 x 23 1/4 in. (134. 6 x 59. 1 cm), Paintings, After Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623?1697), Mei Qing was born into a prominent family in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. Following the family tradition of scholarship, Mei passed the provincial (juren) civil-service examination in 1654 and traveled to the capital to sit for the capital (jinshi) examination, which he took and failed four times, before giving up in 1667