Harvard Art Museums > 1939.270: A Portly Courtier Albums Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"A Portly Courtier (Attributed to Mir Musavvir) , 1939.270,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/216511. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1939.270 People Attributed to Mir Musavvir, Persian Title A Portly Courtier Classification Albums Work Type album folio Date c. 1530 Places Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz Period Safavid period Culture Persian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/216511 Physical Descriptions Medium Ink and reed pen on paper Dimensions 34 × 23.5 cm (13 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.) 13.5 × 10.4 cm (5 5/16 × 4 1/8 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Henry B. Cabot, Walter Cabot, Edward W. Forbes, Eric Schroeder, and the Annie S. Coburn Fund Accession Year 1939 Object Number 1939.270 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Eric Schroeder, Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), pp. 101-103, fig. 17 Arthur Upham Pope, Masterpieces of Persian Art, The Dryden Press (New York, 1945), p. 175, pl. 133 Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Mostra d'arte iranica. Exhibition of Iranian Art., exh. cat. (Milan, 1956), no. 520 Ernst Grube, Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada, exh. cat., Neri Pozza Editore (Venice, 1962) Kimon Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1975), page 85 Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence, J P Tarcher (Los Angeles, 1979) Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 51, 56-57, no. 16, ill. Dr. Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Artist Within, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 1986) Exhibition History Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981 Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983 Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984 Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987 Precisely to the Point, Daggers and Drawings from Persia and India: 15th-19th century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/30/1992 - 07/26/1992 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 Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
