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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.265.20
Title
The Ka`ba at Mecca (painting, verso), Text (recto), folio 20 (detached) from a Manuscript of a Majmu`a of Persian Texts
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
c. 1550-1600
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hejaz
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/148039

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
22.23 x 14.29 cm (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sidy, Paris 2 July 1968], sold; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1968, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.265.20
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sheila Blair, ed., Images of Paradise In Islamic Art, exh. cat., University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1991), page 46/10b
  • John Renard, ed., Windows On the House of Islam: Muslim Sources On Spirituality and Religious Life, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), page 86/figure 16
  • Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, ed., Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2010), p.177, fig. 5
  • Virginia Raguin, Dina Bangdel, and F.E. Peters, ed., Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, exh. cat., Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, College of the Holy Cross and Serindia Publications Inc. (Worcester, MA, 2010), p.302, fig. 4, detail p. 298

Exhibition History

  • The Best Workmanship, the Finest Materials: Prayer Carpets of the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/03/2002 - 12/15/2002
  • Pilgrimage and Faith: Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 07/01/2011 - 10/24/2011
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/07/2018 - 04/17/2019

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