1960.117.261: Folio 261(text, recto and verso), from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.117.261
- Title
- Folio 261(text, recto and verso), from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: "A Group of Women Astonished by the Amorous Behavious of Saddled Asses Grazing ouside a City"; Folio 264 from a Divan of Anwari, copied for Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605)
Series/Book Title: Divan of Anvari - Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 1588
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, Pakistan, Punjab, Lahore
- Period
- Mughal period
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216459
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 14 x 7.7 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.117.261
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch, Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar: a Divan of Auhaduddin Anvari, copied for the Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Akbar (r. 1556-1605) at Lahore in A.H. 996 A.D. 1588 now in the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1983), page 113-115/figure 11
- 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 191, 243
Exhibition History
- Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/07/1984 - 03/28/1984
- Diverse are their Hues: Animals in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1984 - 02/09/1985
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