Azure Dragon

This Azure Dragon is from a Chinese rubbing that David Crockett Graham contributed to the Field Museum in Chicago in 1957. The original rubbing is 56cm by 122cm (22in by 48in) and was taken from a relief cut on a stone coffin found in the tomb of Wang Hui from the Han period (207 BC – 220 AD) in China. It was featured again in an article on their collection in 1983 and has been a centerpiece for the museum’s collection of Chinese Rubbings.

In emails from 2012 we were given permission to use this dragon. It was subsequently noted that the publication of the Catalog of Chinese Rubbings from Field Museum was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and was thus publicly accessible for non-commercial use, with the digitized version covered by the Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. It is otherwise © The Field Museum, A96234.

The David Crockett Graham Historical Fund, Inc. was incorporated in the Year of the Dragon (2024), and the small red rendition of this Azure Dragon has become our mascot.