1995.829: Album of Calligraphy Exercises (Mürekkebat)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.829
- People
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Scribe: Al-Hajj al-‘Arif, Turkish
- Title
- Album of Calligraphy Exercises (Mürekkebat)
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album
- Date
- 1896
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Culture
- Ottoman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214312
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Calligraphy; ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.18 x 32.39 cm (9 1/8 x 12 3/4 in.)
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
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.829
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Birds, Beasts and Calligraphies, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1981 - 09/29/1981
- Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997
- The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/2003 - 07/18/2004
- Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600–1900, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 11/03/2007 - 02/03/2008; Asia Society Museum, New York, 10/07/2008 - 02/08/2009; Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Atlanta, 08/28/2010 - 12/05/2010
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