In his own time the Naching-based painter Fan Ch'i (1616-after 1694) was connected with narratives of reclusion and loyalism. Later art-historical narratives linked him with the Eight Chinling Masters, where he was much overshadowed by the reputation of Kung Hsien, and with the idiom of the fantastic landscape. The present account emphasizes instead Fan Ch'i's engagemnet with several aspects of urban visual culture. Fan's adaptations of imagery and semiotic structures from a print-illstrated guidebook to notable Naching sites, Chu Chih-fan's Chin-ling t'u-yung of 1623, is especially noteworthy. While the print images engaged in specific pictorial and textual pace-making, fan's adaptations for the most pat utilized more generic structures of sites, localities, and experiences, creating small embedded narratives urban sightseeing, reminiscence, travel, commerce, and residence. To these Fan added specific effects of visual perception, sometimes conveying qualities of Northern Sung and European visualities, but more often coded as distanced sight that could serve as a sign of historical, emotional, and possessive distance, congenial to loyalist modes of nostalgia for a lost era. In Fan's early Landscape handscroll of 1645, painted in the year of Naching's surrender, multiple references to famous local sites are charged with effects of unpredictable sight to convey the experience of a landscape event: the re-making of the places of late Ming Nanching at a time of dynastic change.