- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1960.198
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Timur Celebrates His Conquest of Delhi (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from the Zafarnama (Book of Victory) of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 1436
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Shiraz
- Period
- Timurid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215330
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 28 x 16.8 cm (11 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.198
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Eric Schroeder, "Mrs. Rockefeller's Miniatures at the Fogg", The Connoisseur (August 1961), vol. 148, pp. 70-75, p.73, fig. 8
Eleanor Sims, "The Garrett Manuscript of the Zafar-Name: A Study in Fifteenth Century Timurid Patronage" (1973), p. 83, no. 7H, pp. 162-163
Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting: A Scottish Arts Council Exhibition, exh. cat., Scottish Arts Council Gallery (Edinburgh, 1977), no. 69
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 9, 33, 40-41, no. 10, ill.
Michele de Angelis and Thomas W. Lentz, Architecture in Islamic Painting: Permanent and Impermanent Worlds, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass, 1982)
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1, July 1983, Front Cover
Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exh. cat., Museum Associates (Los Angeles, CA, 1989)
David Roxburgh, ed., Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600 - 1600, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2005), p. 219/ fig 168
David Roxburgh, Timurlu Minyatürlerinde Sarap: "Saki, Bize Ab-i Hayat Ver" (Wine in Timurid Miniatures "Cupbearer, let us have some water for life", P Art and Culture Magazine (Istanbul, 2007), Vol. 17, pp. 116-129, p. 117
Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Luk Yu-ping, ed., Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450, Trustees of the British Museum (London, 2016), pp. 232-233, 287; plate 26.6
- Exhibition History
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Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990
Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
Courts and Countryside: Islamic Paintings from the 14th through the 17th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/21/1999 - 08/22/1999
Turkic Art 600 - 1600 From Central Asia to the Golden Horn, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/22/2005 - 04/12/2005
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