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What scene appears in Xia Gui’s Boston Museum of Fine Arts fan painting?

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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. — Xia Gui *Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains*, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

The fan-shaped album leaf by Xia Gui held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts depicts a sailing boat on a river during a storm, accompanied by houses and windswept trees on the shore.1