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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.101
Title
Dragon in foliage
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
2nd half of 16th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216388

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brush drawing accented with gold, silver and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
17.5 x 10.6 cm (6 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Dolliver MacDonald in memory of Eric Schroeder
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.101
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Bernard Dickson and Stuart Cary Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1981), Page 231/Figure 280
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 77/figure 81
  • David Roxburgh, The Persian Album, 1400 - 1600: from Dispersal to Collection, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2005), p 318/ fig 170

Exhibition History

  • Arabesque, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/1990 - 03/24/1991
  • The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994

Verification Level

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