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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.212
People
Calligraphy by Mirza Kuchik Isfahani, Persian
Title
Plea for Tax Relief, folio from an album
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1795-1796
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Period
Zand period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215228

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and gold on paper
Dimensions
27.3 x 17 cm (10 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.212
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Document in shikasta script by Mirza Kuchak Isfahani, dated 1795-96. Siyah Qalam or calligraphic exercise is an artistic form of calligraphy, arranged in an irregular composition, usually written in various orientations.

Publication History

  • Anthony Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1979), page 156-157/figure 65
  • Sheila Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, 2006)

Exhibition History

  • Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Asia House, 01/11/1979 - 03/11/1979; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 04/17/1979 - 05/27/1979; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 06/28/1979 - 08/12/1979; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 09/14/1979 - 10/28/1979
  • Birds, Beasts and Calligraphies, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1981 - 09/29/1981
  • Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
  • Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Illumination and Calligraphy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/30/1988 - 06/26/1988
  • 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
  • On the Path of Madness: Representations of Majnun in Persian, Turkish, and Indian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/27/2007 - 03/23/2008

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