The long handscroll unfolds range after range of rocky mountains in pale reddish-brown washes, with pines, waterfalls, bridges and secluded houses, and an inscription in the sky. Lan Ying (1585-1664), a professional painter of the late Ming dynasty and founder of the Wulin school, painted it in his fifties after the landscapes of the Yuan master Huang Gongwang, in his mature, bold and simple style.